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To: databoss

H bombs use a small plutonium core fission reaction to initiate a hydrogen fusion reaction. Fission reactions, like what we use in nuke plants, are highly radioactive as are their byproducts. Fusion reactions don’t have these issues, 95+ % of the radiation from an H bomb are from the plutonium core fission reaction.


136 posted on 03/15/2011 8:19:04 PM PDT by east1234 (Cut, Kill, Dig and Drill!)
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To: east1234

And 99% of all the radiation in a bomb is released within the fist minute of the blast. The other 1% is fallout blown up into the air.

A H bomb is a Bomb with a fission core, wrapped in heavy water then wrapped in a fission wrapping. A nuetron bomb is simply a bomb without the outer wrapping. Very clean and limited in blast capabilities.


169 posted on 03/15/2011 8:28:38 PM PDT by crz
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