fission yield

The test weapons produced a combined fission yield of 42.2 Mt of explosive power.

Due to its high fission yield, relatively long half-life, and mobility in the environment, technetium-99 is one of the more significant components of nuclear waste.

The tritium, the fusion yield, the neutrons, and the fission yield were all increased accordingly.

The same source suggests that the fission yield was 5e18 fissions which would deliver 156 MJ of heat into the reactor.

ERWs were two-stage thermonuclears with all non-essential uranium removed to minimize fission yield.

These fission yields were calculated for U assuming thermal neutrons (0.0253 eV) using data from the chart of the nuclides.

All boosted fission weapons use tritium (which decays with time) gradually reducing the designed fission yield by approx 4.4% per year.

The additional neutrons generated were supposed to invade the plutonium mass, boosting the Alpha and causing at least a doubling of the weapon's unboosted fission yield.

Many more neutrons per unit of energy are released in a thermonuclear explosion in comparison with a purely fission yield influencing the fission products composition.

The HEU fission was enhanced by fusion stage neutrons, but would have generated a very significant fission yield by itself.

In 1954, he took the Dr. Philos degree on the thesis A Radiochemical Study of Fission Yields.

A good table of the nuclides, such as that provided by the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute, includes the fission yields of the different nuclides.

Nuclear fission produces it at a fission yield of 6.3% (thermal neutron fission of U), on a par with the other most abundant fission products.

Reduction in the fission yield of a primary will reduce the thermonuclear nuclear yield by a similar proportion, or even lead to the thermonuclear fusion stage failing to ignite.

In the aftermath of criticality accidents the level of La is often used to determine the fission yield (in terms of the number of nuclei which underwent fission).

In the thermonuclear Starfish Prime the fission yield was less than 100% and the thicker outer casing absorbed about 95% of the prompt gamma rays from the pusher around the fusion stage.

Cumulative and independent fission yields of Rb isotopes have been measured for 3He and 4He induced fission of 232Th and 238U at bombarding energies slightly above the Coulomb barriers.

ADMs have never been used commercially although similar small devices, often modified to cut down on fission yield and maximize fusion, have been deeply buried to put out gas well fires as part of the Soviet test program.

The test weapons were detonated on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air and underwater with a combined fission yield of 42.2 Mt. The testing began with the Operation Crossroads series in July 1946.

If a deuterium-tritium mixture is placed at the center of the device to be compressed and heated by the fission explosion, a fission yield of 250 tons is sufficient to cause D-T fusion releasing high-energy fusion neutrons which will then fission much of the remaining fission fuel.