what is the best way to seperate diuteriom tritium and uranium when making a hydrogen ball.
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Explanation:
Isotope separation is the process of concentrating specific isotopes of a chemical element by removing other isotopes. The use of the nuclides produced is various. The largest variety is used in research (e.g. in chemistry where atoms of "marker" nuclide are used to figure out reaction mechanisms). By tonnage, separating natural uranium into enriched uranium and depleted uranium is the largest application. In the following text, mainly the uranium enrichment is considered. This process is a crucial one in the manufacture of uranium fuel for nuclear power stations, and is also required for the creation of uranium based nuclear weapons. Plutonium-based weapons use plutonium produced in a nuclear reactor, which must be operated in such a way as to produce plutonium already of suitable isotopic mix or grade. While different chemical elements can be purified through chemical processes, isotopes of the same element have nearly identical chemical properties, which makes this type of separation impractical, except for separation of deuterium.
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A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb), is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation atomic bombs, a more compact size, a lower mass or a combination of these benefits. Characteristics of nuclear fusion reactions make possible the use of non-fissile depleted uranium as the weapon's main fuel, thus allowing more efficient use of scarce fissile material such as uranium-235 (235U) or plutonium-239 (239Pu).
1950s fusion bomb design with cylindrical fusion stage
(modern designs use spherical secondaries)
A) fission primary stage
B) fusion secondary stage
1) High-explosive lenses
2) Uranium-238 ("tamper") lined with beryllium reflector
3) Vacuum ("levitated core")
4) Tritium "boost" gas (blue) within plutonium or uranium hollow core
5) Radiation channel filled with polystyrene foam
6) Uranium ("pusher/tamper")
7) Lithium-6 deuteride (fusion fuel)
8) Plutonium ("spark plug")
9) Radiation case (confines thermal X-rays by reflection)