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A boosted fission weapon usually refers to a type of nuclear bomb that uses a small amount of fusion fuel to increase the rate, and thus yield, of a fission reaction. The neutrons released by the fusion reactions add to the neutrons released due to fission, allowing for more neutron-induced fission reactions to take place.
Gun-type fission weapon . Date: September 2007: Source: Based on an illustration by FastFission (Image:Gun-type Nuclear weapon.png) and a modified version by Howard Morland (Image:Gun-Type Fission Weapon.png). The bullet and the target were slighty modified (the bullet was a stack of rings). Author
Français : A Bombe avant explosion; étage de la fission en haut (primaire), étage de la fusion en bas (secondaire), toutes suspendues dans une mousse de polystyrène. B L'explosif haute puissance détonne dans le primaire, comprimant le cœur du plutonium en mode supercritique et démarrant une réaction de fission.
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The W33 is the third known model of gun-type fission weapons to have been detonated, and the second as a test explosion. The W33 was tested twice, first in Operation Plumbbob Laplace , on September 8, 1957 with a yield of 1 kilotonne of TNT (4.2 TJ ), [ 10 ] and the TX-33Y2 in Operation Nougat Aardvark on May 12, 1962, with a yield of 40 ...
This is known as a boosted fission weapon. [5] If a fission device designed for boosting is tested without the boost gas, a yield in the sub-kiloton range may indicate a successful test that the device's implosion and primary fission stages are working as designed, though this does not test the boosting process itself.