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Plutonium-240
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Gun-type fission weapons don't work with plutonium
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2025-01-06
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Gun-type fission weapons
don't work with
Plutonium-239
because of the presence of
Plutonium-240
as an impurity which leads to
fizzle
.
Good mentions at:
youtu.be/dgBDvnqMkT4?t=252
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Plutonium-239
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2025-01-06
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2024-08-14
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This is the
isotope
that is produced for
nuclear weapons
by irradiating
Uranium-238
with a
neutron
.
Plutonium-240
is a contaminant.
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RaLa Experiment
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2025-01-06
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2024-08-27
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Video 1.
Oppenheimer's Gamble by
Welch Labs
.
Source
. Fails to mention
Plutonium-240
as the source of the problem.
youtu.be/W06g7gIfwRE?t=252
cool to learn that the explosive lenses had to be made out of two different types of explosives, slow and fast, to be more symmetrical
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