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- Most modern nuclear weapons use hydrogen in the form of tritium gas in a miniature particle accelerator to generate the initial burst of neutrons that starts fission at the optimal time to avoid a fizzle and get the best design yield.
- Hydrogen in the form of deuterium gas, tritium gas, or both can be injected into a sealed hollow core fission bomb to create additional neutrons, increasing the efficiency of the weapon. This allows either a smaller bomb by using less fissile material, a higher yield bomb, or both. This is called boosting.
- Bombs of theoretically unlimited yield may be built using staging and radiation driven implosion (called the Teller-Ulam design in the US and Sakharov's third idea in the USSR) with a deuterium-tritium mixture, usually produced in situ by fission neutron bombardment of lithium deuteride a solid. Each stage of such a bomb gives higher yield than the one before it and in principle one can use as many stages as desired.
- The high energy fusion neutrons generated by a staged fusion bomb are capable of inducing fission in depleted uranium, which would ordinarily not be able to fission. A shell of depleted uranium incasing a staged fusion bomb can multiply its yield by another factor of up to 10.
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Where did the Japanese nuclear explosion occur?
The only nuclear explosions in Japan were the two in WW2, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.However I believe you meant the Japanese nuclear reactorexplosion, which was not a nuclear explosion it was either a steam explosion and/or a hydrogen/oxygen chemical explosion. That occurred at Fukushima.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of hydrogen as an alternative fuel?
Hydrogen is plentiful therefore cheep. It is also volatile if not handled properly. Comparatively, a hydrogen explosion can be close to a nuclear explosion damage wise.
What are the products of nuclear fusion in a hydrogen bomb?
The nuclear fusion uses Hydrogen to produce Helium. The fusion also releases a lot of energy, which is what causes the explosion.
Where was the worlds worst nuclear explosion?
I'm not sure but the strongest bomb is the hydrogen bomb
How does hydrogen gas cause explosion on nuclear reactors?
A spark or other heat source causes the accumulated hydrogen to react with oxygen in the air, making very hot steam. If there is enough hydrogen an explosion results.
How does nuclear power hurt when it explodes?
A nuclear power station can not create a nuclear explosion. What CAN happen is that hydrogen could build up inside of the containment dome and if the build up becomes too intense, it can cause a hydrogen explosion, like the one in Japan recently. This explosion is dangerous only if you are close to it and are hit by the concussion or by the debris that is flying from the explosion. If this explosion is too large, it can damage the containment dome surrounding the reactor and this, in turn, releases some radioactive gases.
What are the method of controlling nuclear explosion?
nuclear explosion?
What are they doing to fix the nuclear explosion in japan?
There was no nuclear explosion in the Japanese reactors. The explosion(s) that damaged/destroyed the Japanese reactors were either steam explosions and/or hydrogen/oxygen gas explosions.A steam explosion is what destroyed the Chernobyl reactor. It is caused when cooling water flash evaporates.A hydrogen/oxygen explosion is caused when water decomposes on contact with overheated zirconium cladding on fuel pellets, releasing hydrogen gas. If enough accumulates and a spark happens it explodes. Three Mile Island began accumulating hydrogen like this but it was vented before it could explode.
What may have caused the explosion of Japan's nuclear power plants?
The high temperatures created by the nuclear fuel rods led to the buildup of hydrogen gas which ignited.
What happened some years ago in Russia from nuclear explosion?
When and what explosion? One of the nuclear test shots. If so which?Remember Chernobyl was not a nuclear explosion, it was a steam explosion and graphite fire.
What is the difference between the hydrogen bomb and the nuclear bomb?
"Nucear bomb" is very broad term, and encompases all bombs or weapons which utilize the explosive potential of specific elements, either by fusion or fission.The classic "nuclear bombs" use uranium or plutonium in a fission reaction to produce an explosion, where as a hydrogen bomb uses hydrogen, or specific isotopes of it (deuterium or tritium, either together or with another light-weight element) to produce a similar explosion (though usually larger in size), by mean of nuclear fusion.So technicaly, a hydrogen bomb is a type of nuclear bomb.
What happens when a nuclear reactor in a nuclear submarrine explodes?
It can't explode like a nuclear bomb. It could have a steam explosion, as can any steam power plant. It is also possible for it to build up hydrogen gas if it runs too hot and damages its fuel rods, the hydrogen could explode.
