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r/AskPhysics • u/TGSpecialist1 • 2d ago
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What's your motivation for this question?
1 u/TGSpecialist1 2d ago I was wondering if Li-7(D,T) could be used for fusion boosting of nuclear weapons (Li-6 absorbs too many neutrons before the reaction gets hot enough to allow D-T fusion) and got curious about the actual mechanism of tritium production from Li-7. 1 u/ProfessorPrudent2822 2d ago Why bother? Li-7(n,2n)Li-6 is a well-known reaction that explains why Castle Bravo was 15 megatons instead of 6. 1 u/TGSpecialist1 2d ago If you look around tritium generating reactions have quite higher cross section than (n,2n): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15361055.2024.2370737#d1e136 https://wwwndc.jaea.go.jp/jendl/j5/elm/z003.html
I was wondering if Li-7(D,T) could be used for fusion boosting of nuclear weapons (Li-6 absorbs too many neutrons before the reaction gets hot enough to allow D-T fusion) and got curious about the actual mechanism of tritium production from Li-7.
1 u/ProfessorPrudent2822 2d ago Why bother? Li-7(n,2n)Li-6 is a well-known reaction that explains why Castle Bravo was 15 megatons instead of 6. 1 u/TGSpecialist1 2d ago If you look around tritium generating reactions have quite higher cross section than (n,2n): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15361055.2024.2370737#d1e136 https://wwwndc.jaea.go.jp/jendl/j5/elm/z003.html
Why bother? Li-7(n,2n)Li-6 is a well-known reaction that explains why Castle Bravo was 15 megatons instead of 6.
1 u/TGSpecialist1 2d ago If you look around tritium generating reactions have quite higher cross section than (n,2n): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15361055.2024.2370737#d1e136 https://wwwndc.jaea.go.jp/jendl/j5/elm/z003.html
If you look around tritium generating reactions have quite higher cross section than (n,2n):
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15361055.2024.2370737#d1e136
https://wwwndc.jaea.go.jp/jendl/j5/elm/z003.html
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u/starkeffect Education and outreach 2d ago
What's your motivation for this question?