Sentence examples for fission explosion from inspiring English sources

It is not, however, the source of a modern bomb's main explosive power, for just as the chemical explosives trigger a fission explosion by compressing the plutonium, that fission explosion is used to ignite the third stage, a still-larger fusion explosion, by compressing and heating the main part of the bomb.

Uranium-238 and thorium-232 (and some other fissionable materials) cannot maintain a self-sustaining fission explosion, but these isotopes can be made to fission by an externally maintained supply of fast neutrons from fission or fusion reactions.

The fusionable material boosts the fission explosion by supplying a superabundance of neutrons.

Another technique for enhancing the yield of a fission explosion is called boosting.

If the fission explosion is an airburst, the residual radiation will come mainly from the weapon debris.

In thermonuclear weapons, the required temperatures and density of the fusion materials are achieved with a fission explosion.

It is therefore present in radioactive waste and in the nuclear fallout of fission bomb explosions.

In order to make an explosion, fission weapons do not require uranium or plutonium that is pure in the isotopes uranium-235 and plutonium-239.

The title is a playful reference to something he is popularly supposed to have said in one of his television programmes, but that too becomes a text for a sermon: on exponential growth, nuclear fission and the population explosion.

"What I was after is more like nuclear fission in which the explosion of something minuscule unlooses catastrophic, ungovernable devastation," he wrote in a 1992 afterword to some of his plays.

They worked day and night in "enriching" uranium, making it ready for fission, chain reaction, and explosion.