Weapon of mass destruction and its myths.

originally posted by: SarK0Y

bombs need high-enriched material

more accurate, weapon-grade material.

a reply to: SarK0Y

Yes, you are wrong. Do you even begin to understand where the heat comes from? Obviously not.

Fuel rods and weapons grade material are not the same thing. The heat from fuel rods comes from the fact that fission is occurring. That requires cooling to keep it from going out of control and causing a meltdown. In a nuclear weapon fission doesn't occur until the weapon detonates. There's very little heat prior to that because fission isn't occurring.

a reply to: SarK0Y

Crap, you can handle the fissionable material from our nukes with your bare hands.

I would not go eating the stuff or breathing in any particulate matter all the same. LoL

a reply to: Zaphod58
well, let's start from basics: chain reaction (radioactivity) produces a heat, chain reaction is the matter of critical mass, critical mass is the matter of chemical purity of FM. Weapon grade is over 90% of purity. In short, the're a lot of the heat

a reply to: andy06shake

Crap, you can handle the fissionable material from our nukes with your bare hands.

so, it's either not fissile material at all or it's low-enriched one. Anyway, the're no way to gain nuclear explosion out of it

a reply to: SarK0Y



How come he's not burning his fingers?

a reply to: andy06shake
fake

a reply to: SarK0Y

I think i ken whats fake mate, and in this instance, it seems to be the mince coming out your puss.

a reply to: andy06shake
just take handbook of physics & prove me wrong otherwise all hollywood stories can be taken as documentary ones

a reply to: SarK0Y

You seem to have a problem with pictures, you don't require any books, because even if you had them i dought you would believe the information contained within.

a reply to: andy06shake

he just doesn't believe his lying eyes.

a reply to: andy06shake

if fissile material has sub-critical mass, it has ambient temp. But the're very catch == how to keep sub-critical state within minimal space?

a reply to: SarK0Y

Sorry, what's the question?

A subcritical mass is a mass of fissile material that does not have the ability to sustain a fission chain reaction.

a reply to: andy06shake

sub-critical mass is only way to keep device in stable state. So nuclear charge must consist of pieces of FM and each piece has to have sub-critical mass. So, pieces have to be isolated from each other & from surrounding by some kind of absorbing panels to bring into disarmed mode. At disarmed mode, the're no way to explode thing. Ability to switch device from dis* to armed mode actually needs to create nuke plant with size of bomb. how many mini nuke plant you know?

a reply to: SarK0Y

You clearly don't understand what you're talking about.

All US ordnance has an expected 10% dud rate. Due to safety features built into the fuzing we use to ensure safety in handling and transport.

a reply to: watchitburn

All US ordnance has an expected 10% dud rate.

for chemical explosives, you have a lot of ways to ensure safety & failproof explosion. But we have discussed hella different Best ;D

*Beast

originally posted by: SarK0Y
a reply to: andy06shake

sub-critical mass is only way to keep device in stable state. So nuclear charge must consist of pieces of FM and each piece has to have sub-critical mass. So, pieces have to be isolated from each other & from surrounding by some kind of absorbing panels to bring into disarmed mode. At disarmed mode, the're no way to explode thing. Ability to switch device from dis* to armed mode actually needs to create nuke plant with size of bomb. how many mini nuke plant you know?

Watch the 2.5 minute Demon Core clip I posted earlier in the thread. It shows how the two subcritical masses became critical with a slip of the screwdriver, no mini-nuke plant needed. It's a Hollywood re-enactment, but based on actual, well documented events.

originally posted by: Arbitrageur
The Demon Core 1945

The Little Boy codenamed nuke worked something like that, it just brought the two red subcritical masses labeled H and S together to make the explosion over Hiroshima.

a reply to: SarK0Y

The device/bombs, and fissionable material within, are stable until each of the components, known as "stage" are initiated and come together.

Once dense enough to reach the critical mass where neutrons are injected, initiating a fission chain reaction that produces the atomic explosion.

You don't need anything the size of a nuclear power plant, just about 50kg of Uranium 235/Plutonium-239 and accompanying technologies to make a mini sun.

a reply to: SarK0Y

Chain reaction isn't occurring until the weapon detonates. Prior to that, the only reaction occurring is decay, which produces very little heat.