Both Uranium an Plutonium can be assembled as implosion configuration, but i have a doubt about output power of uranium implosion device. In the same configuration , could Uranium-implosion type warhead be more powerful than Plutonium implosion system?
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In terms of less active material than usual, i think only 1 inch of uranium could release less than 1kt but even 1kt means a huge damage if it was exploded by airdrop ( that would maximize damage around its target) Is that right?
I am not sure I understand what you're asking (or why). Again, 1 inch diameter sphere of HEU is only 0.16 kg. Getting a supercritical assembly out of that is not going to be easy. Even if it fissioned 100% (unlikely) would only release <10 tons (not kt) of energy.
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Sorry about my comments. I understood You wrote. I was trying to tell that if NK has not enough active material, weapons' engineers easily could build a nuclear weapon with low yield, but with best results.
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It is possible to make very low yield weapons with a kilogram or perhaps less of material, but it is not easy and the results are not great. I don't think that's what DPRK would be doing.
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Yeah. You can make a neutron/gamma grenade moderated criticality device more easily but useful explosives yield doesn't scale down well.
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Yes. That i was trying tobtalk about : neutron bomb or enhanced radiation weapon.
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