U-233 enriched to 40% for the primary of the Teller-Ulam design? @wellerstein http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/08/23/the-spy-the-human-computer-and-the-h-bomb/ …
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@aaronstein1@wellerstein U-233? Don't the alpha emissions make it unreliable and even unstable? May randomly go critical...
@orsoraggiante @aaronstein1 I think the U-233 is a typo in the original, but the 40% seems consistent (and weird).
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@wellerstein@orsoraggiante How would that even work? One would assume, as you write, that the primary would be little boy style U235 -
@aaronstein1@orsoraggiante It's almost certainly U-235. But I don't know how they'd expect to get 5% efficiency with only 40% enriched -
@wellerstein@aaronstein1@orsoraggiante Code for something else? Source, maybe?
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