nuclear fusion
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Only smaller ones. In larger devices the initial fission reaction is used to initiate one or more fusion reactions. With much more energy as a result.
It's not exactly earth shattering. It is a small step on the never ending journey to a commercial fusion power plant. It doesn't move the theory on and whilst it's good to validate that can be done in practice it is also pretty much the limit of the lab. We can't go further until ITER is up and running.
The Russian 50mt H bomb was started with a conventional 1.5mt bomb.The rest came from fusion. A change of materials makes the 50 a 100 but a lot dirtier so has never been tested, who knows though really. Underground tests ruled for a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
It looks like H bombs can be made for any yield and gain over conventional in size and being cleaner. This what the cold war was about really. Weapon races. End result MAD. Mutually Assured Destruction. There have been talks about missile reductions so along came these
The British Trident IIs are reported to carry an average of three 100-kiloton warheads each, while the U.S. missiles are variously reported as carrying four, six, eight, or even more 475-kiloton warheads.
Maybe the talks should have been about warheads.
That's politics for you.For if people want a read
https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines
The UK has decided to remain in the project.
That's one of the things I really would like to see before I give up the ghost.
It would be one of the biggest steps of humanity, or maybe the biggest.
It would be one of the biggest steps of humanity, or maybe the biggest.
