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The estimated quantity needed is 4 grams (0.14 oz) per warhead. [11] To maintain constant levels of tritium, about 0.20 grams (0.0071 oz) per warhead per year must be supplied to the bomb. One mole of deuterium-tritium gas contains about 3.0
[citation needed] In Australia products containing tritium are licence exempt if they contain less than 1 × 10 6 becquerels per gram (2.7 × 10 −5 Ci/g) tritium and have a total activity of less than 1 × 10 9 becquerels (0.027 Ci), except for in safety devices where the limit is 74 × 10 9 becquerels (2.0 Ci) total activity. [12]
As tritium forms a stable compound with oxygen (tritiated water) while helium-3 does not, the storage and collection process could continuously collect the material that outgasses from the stored material. Tritium is a critical component of nuclear weapons and historically it was produced and stockpiled primarily for this application. The decay ...
very much because the Bremsstrahlung fraction is low, but it will push the other fuels into regimes where the power density relative to 2 1 D – 3 1 T is even lower and the required confinement even more difficult to achieve. For 2 1 D – 2 1 D and 2 1 D – 3 2 He, Bremsstrahlung losses will be a serious, possibly prohibitive problem. For 3 ...
Beryllium + Oxygen: 23.9 [3] Lithium + Fluorine: 23.75 [citation needed] Octaazacubane potential explosive: 22.9 [4] Hydrogen + Oxygen: 13.4 [5] Gasoline + Oxygen –> Derived from Gasoline: 13.3 [citation needed] Dinitroacetylene explosive - computed [citation needed] 9.8: Octanitrocubane explosive: 8.5 [6] 16.9 [7] Tetranitrotetrahedrane ...
The process is simple and requires no complex machinery or chemicals above and beyond that required in all reprocessing (hot cells, remote handling equipment) Products such as krypton-85 or tritium, as well as xenon (whose isotope are either stable, very nearly stable , or quickly decay), can be recovered and sold for use in industry, science ...
The normal amount of oxygen-18 present in the natural form is 0.204% while that of oxygen-17 is 0.037%. The reduction of the oxygen-17 and oxygen-18 present in the plutonium dioxide will result in a much lower neutron emission rate for the oxide; this can be accomplished by a gas phase 16 O 2 exchange method.
Low energy beta particles are needed to prevent the production of high energy penetrating bremsstrahlung radiation that would require heavy shielding. Radioisotopes such as plutonium-238, curium-242, curium-244 and strontium-90 have been used. Tritium, nickel-63, promethium-147, and technetium-99 have been tested.