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1161:. The secondary assembly was an elongated truncated cone. From its front part (excluding the blast-heat shield) to its aft section it was steeply tapered. Tapering was used for two reasons. First, radiation drops by the square of the distance, hence radiation coupling is relatively poor in the aftermost sections of the secondary. This made the use of a higher mass of the then scarce fusion fuel in the rear end of the secondary assembly ineffective and the overall design wasteful. This was also the reason why the lower-enriched slugs of fusion fuel were placed far aft of the fuel capsule. Second, as the primary could not illuminate the whole surface of the hohlraum, in part due to the large axial length of the secondary, relatively small solid angles would be effective to compress the secondary, leading to poor radiation focusing. By tapering the secondary, the hohlraum could be shaped as a cylinder in its aft section obviating the need to machine the radiation case to a parabola at both ends. This optimized radiation focusing and enabled a streamlined production line, as it was cheaper, faster and easier to manufacture a radiation case with only one parabolic end. The tapering in this design was much steeper than its cousins, the 1231:, transcended 1. Its purpose was to compress the fusion material around it from its inside, equally applying pressure with the tamper. The compression factor of the fusion fuel and its adiabatic compression energy determined the minimal energy required for the spark plug to counteract the compression of the fusion fuel and the tamper's momentum. The spark plug weighed about 18 kg, and its initial firing yielded 0.6 kilotonnes of TNT (2.5 TJ). Then it would be completely fissioned by the fusion neutrons, contributing about 330 kilotonnes of TNT (1,400 TJ) to the total yield. The energy required by the spark plug to counteract the compression of the fusion fuel was lower than the primary's yield because coupling of the primary's energy in the hohlraum is accompanied by losses due to the difference between the X-ray fireball and the hohlraum temperatures. The neutrons entered the assembly by a small hole through the ≈28 cm thick U blast-heat shield. It was positioned in front of the secondary assembly facing the primary. Similar to the tamper-fusion capsule assembly, the shield was shaped as a circular frustum, with its small diameter facing the primary's side, and with its large diameter locked by a type of 1112:. The rocket effect on the surface of tamper's wall created by the ablation of its several superficial layers would force an equal mass of uranium that rested in the remainder of the tamper to speed inwards, thus imploding the thermonuclear core. At the same time, the rocket effect on the surface of the hohlraum would force the radiation case to speed outwards. The ballistic case would confine the exploding radiation case for as long as necessary. The fact that the tamper material was uranium enriched in U is primarily based on the final fission reaction fragments detected in the radiochemical analysis, which conclusively showed the presence of U, found by the Japanese in the shot debris. The first-generation thermonuclear weapons (MK-14, 16, 17, 21, 22 and 24) all used uranium tampers enriched to 37.5% U. The exception to this was the 1669:(Lucky Dragon No. 5), came in direct contact with the fallout, which caused many of the crew to grow ill due to radiation sickness. One member died of a secondary infection six months later after acute radiation exposure, and another had a child that was stillborn and deformed. This resulted in an international incident and reignited Japanese concerns about radiation, especially as Japanese citizens were once more adversely affected by US nuclear weapons. The official US position had been that the growth in the strength of atomic bombs was not accompanied by an equivalent growth in radioactivity released, and they denied that the crew was affected by radioactive fallout. Japanese scientists who had collected data from the fishing vessel disagreed with this. 1157:
cone (the projection of the radiation case). Any other major supporting structure would interfere to radiation transfer from the primary to the secondary and complex vibrational behavior. With this form of joint bearing most of the structural loads of the secondary, the latter and the hohlraum-ballistic case ensemble behaved as a single mass sharing common eigenmodes. To reduce excessive loading of the joint, especially during deployment of the weapon, the forward section of the secondary (i.e. the thermal blast/heat shield) was anchored to the radiation case by a set of thin wires, which also aligned the center line of the secondary with the primary, as they diminished bending and torsional loads on the secondary, another technique adopted from the
2189: 1679:, London, demonstrated that the contamination caused by the fallout from the test was far greater than that stated officially. Rotblat deduced that the bomb had three stages and showed that the fission phase at the end of the explosion increased the amount of radioactivity a thousand-fold. Rotblat's paper was taken up by the media, and the outcry in Japan reached such a level that diplomatic relations became strained and the incident was even dubbed by some as a "second Hiroshima". Nevertheless, the Japanese and US governments quickly reached a political settlement, with the transfer to Japan of $ 15.3 million as compensation, with the surviving victims receiving about 814: 830: 845: 393: 54: 2208: 863: 1128: 2217: 1626: 1695: 1097: 1430: 2051: 981:. Copper possesses excellent reflecting properties, and its low cost, compared to other reflecting materials like gold, made it useful for mass-produced hydrogen weapons. Hohlraum albedo is a very important design parameter for any inertial-confinement configuration. A relatively high albedo permits higher interstage coupling due to the more favorable azimuthal and latitudinal angles of reflected radiation. The limiting value of the albedo for high- 1575:, is filmed aboard the control ship in that film, showing the final conference. Hadley points out that 20,000 people live in the potential area of the fallout. He asks the control panel scientist if the test can be aborted and is told "yes", but it would ruin all their preparations in setting up timed measuring instruments. In Mike, the fallout correctly landed north of the inhabited area but, in the 1954 Bravo test, there was a large amount of 2180: 1366: 1877: 1533: 2233: 963: 1143:, to better define and quantify the timing and energies of the x-rays and neutrons produced by these early thermonuclear devices. One of the outcomes of this diagnostic work resulted in this graphic depiction of the transport of energetic x-ray and neutrons through a vacuum line, some 2.3 km long, whereupon it heated solid matter at the "station 1200" blockhouse and thus generated a secondary fireball. 944:," their fusion fuel may have been spiked with additional tritium, in the form of LiT. All of the high-energy 14 MeV neutrons would cause fission in the uranium fusion tamper wrapped around the secondary and the spark plug's plutonium rod. The ratio of deuterium (and tritium) atoms burned by 14 MeV neutrons spawned by the burning was expected to vary from 5:1 to 3:1, a standardization derived from 61: 2436:(ICF) indirect drive experiments, caused local radiation decoupling and hence poor radiation reflection by the hohlraum. Radiation decoupling in turn reduced locally the efficiency of the ablation process on the surface of secondary's tamper, destabilizing implosion by a small degree. Nevertheless, even minor instabilities during ablation amplified the already dreaded Taylor mixing. 883: 618:. The assembled module weighed 1,840 lb (830 kg), measuring 30.5 in (770 mm) across. It was located at the end of the device, which, as seen in the declassified film, shows a small cone projecting from the ballistic case. This cone is the part of the paraboloid that was used to focus the radiation emanating from the primary into the secondary. 796:/g at that time. The fusion burn efficiency was close to 25.1%, the highest attained efficiency of the first thermonuclear weapon generation. This efficiency is well within the figures given in a November 1956 statement, when a DOD official disclosed that thermonuclear devices with efficiencies ranging from 15% to up about 40% had been tested. 2168:. The report is a guide to off-site radiation exposures, a narrative history, and a guide to primary historical references concerning the Castle Bravo test. The report focuses on the circumstances that resulted in radioactive exposure of the uninhabited atolls, and makes no attempt to address in detail the effects on or around Bikini Atoll. 1219:, a tritium-boosted fission device. It was assembled by plutonium rings and had a hollow volume inside that measured about 0.5 cm in diameter. This central volume was lined with copper, which like the liner in the primary's fissile core prevented DT gas diffusion in plutonium. The spark plug's boosting charge contained about 4 grams of 1571:, the Scientific Director of Operation Castle. Graves had total authority over detonating the weapon, above that of the military commander of Operation Castle. Graves appears in the widely available film of the earlier 1952 test "Ivy Mike", which examines the last-minute fallout decisions. The narrator, the western actor 1089:, meaning that the generated energy balances the energy lost to fuel's vicinity (as radiation, particle losses). After all, for any hydrogen weapon system to work, this energy equilibrium must be maintained through the compression equilibrium between the fusion tamper and the spark plug (see below), hence their name 1992:
fuel in the fusion secondary to critical density and pressure, setting off thermonuclear (fusion) chain reactions, which in turn set off a tertiary fissioning of the bomb's U fusion tamper and casing. Consequently, this type of bomb is also known as a "fission-fusion-fission" device. The Soviet researchers, led by
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were impacted by the radioactive fallout. This single test exposed the surrounding populations to varying levels of radiation. The fallout levels attributed to the Castle Bravo test are the highest in history. Populations neighboring the test site were exposed to high levels of radiation resulting in
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Castle Bravo had the greatest yield of any U.S. nuclear test, 15 Mt, though again, a substantial fraction came from fission. In the Teller–Ulam design, the fission and fusion stages were kept physically separate in a reflective cavity. The radiation from the exploding fission primary brought the
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In 2016, 45 Japanese fishermen from other ships sued their government for not disclosing records about their exposure to Operation Castle fallout. Records released in 2014 acknowledge that the crews of 10 ships were exposed but under health-damaging levels. In 2018 the suit was rejected by the Kochi
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effect that would otherwise "choke" radiation from compressing the secondary. The reemitted X-rays from the radiation case must be deposited uniformly on the outer walls of the secondary's tamper and ablate it externally, driving the thermonuclear fuel capsule (increasing the density and temperature
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from the primary to the secondary assembly; the interstage. It is one of the most closely guarded secrets of a multistage thermonuclear weapon. Implosion of the secondary assembly is indirectly driven, and the techniques used in the interstage to smooth the spatial profile (i.e. reduce coherence and
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joint. The hohlraum at its cylindrical end had an internal projection, which nested the secondary and had better structural strength to support the secondary's assembly, which had most of the device's mass. A visualization to this is that the joint looked much like a cap (the secondary) fitted in a
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Since the ablative process takes place on both walls of the radiation channel, a numerical estimate made with ISRINEX (a thermonuclear explosion simulation program) suggested that the uranium tamper also had a thickness of 2.5 cm, so that an equal pressure would be applied to both walls of the
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by stray neutrons from the primary without interfering with the subsequent fissioning of the U of the fusion tamper wrapping the secondary. Boron also played a role in increasing the compressive plasma pressure around the secondary by blocking the sputtering effect, leading to higher thermonuclear
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inches (220 mm) in diameter and 40 feet (12 m) long and were butt-welded end-to-end to the ballistic case leading out to the top of the shot cab. They would carry the initial reaction's light up to the array of 12 mirror towers built in an arc on the artificial 1-acre (0.40 ha) shot
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was nominally 40% lithium-6 (the remainder was the much more common lithium-7, which was incorrectly assumed to be inert). The fuel slugs varied in enrichment from 37 to 40% in Li, and the slugs with lower enrichment were positioned at the end of the fusion-fuel chamber, away from the primary. The
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reached a height of 47,000 feet (14,000 m) and a diameter of 7 miles (11 km) in about a minute, a height of 130,000 feet (40 km) and 62 mi (100 km) in diameter in less than 10 minutes and was expanding at more than 160 meters per second (580 km/h; 360 mph). As a
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Boron was used at many locations in this dry system; it has a high cross-section for the absorption of slow neutrons, which fission U and Pu, but a low cross-section for the absorption of fast neutrons, which fission U. Because of this characteristic, B deposited onto the surface of the secondary
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The unexpectedly high yield of the device severely damaged many of the permanent buildings on the control site island on the far side of the atoll. Little of the desired diagnostic data on the shot was collected; many instruments designed to transmit their data back before being destroyed by the
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Ring Lenses were used in conjunction with 1E23 type bridge-wire detonators. The ring lenses reduced weapon's external diameter by making the HE layer thinner, and their simultaneity of shock wave emergence was considerably higher compared to previous hyperboloid lenses, enabling better and more
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The fallout spread traces of radioactive material as far as Australia, India and Japan, and even the United States and parts of Europe. Though organized as a secret test, Castle Bravo quickly became an international incident, prompting calls for a ban on the atmospheric testing of thermonuclear
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primary predetonated the spherical fission spark plug, which in turn "cooked" the fusion fuel, leading to an overall poor compression.) The plastic's low molecular weight is unable to implode the secondary's mass. Its plasma-pressure is confined in the boiled-off sections of the tamper and the
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materials is reached when the thickness is 5–10 g/cm, or 0.5–1.0 free paths. Thus, a hohlraum made of uranium much thicker than a free path of uranium would be needlessly heavy and costly. At the same time, the angular anisotropy increases as the atomic number of the scatterer material is
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nails, lined to the top of their head with copper, attached the radiation case to the ballistic case. The nails were bolted in vertical arrays in a double-shear configuration to better distribute the shear loads. This method of attaching the radiation case to the ballistic case was first used
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This resultant extra fuel (both lithium-6 and lithium-7) contributed greatly to the fusion reactions and neutron production and in this manner greatly increased the device's explosive output. The test used lithium with a high percentage of lithium-7 only because lithium-6 was then scarce and
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and, imploding together with the secondary's compression, was timed to detonate by the first generations of neutrons that arrived from the primary. Timing was defined by the geometric characteristics of the sparkplug (its uncompressed annular radius), which detonated when its criticality, or
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component of the weapon. The weapon, like most contemporary thermonuclear weapons at that time, bore the same codename as the secondary component. The secondary was situated in the cylindrical end of the device, where its end was locked to the radiation case by a type of
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ballistic case. Aluminum was used to drastically reduce the bomb's weight and simultaneously provided sufficient radiation confinement time to raise yield, a departure from the heavy stainless steel casing (304L or MIM 316L) employed by other weapon-projects at the time.
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used in most stockpiled bombs at that time, as Cyclotol 75/25 was denser than Composition B and thus could generate the same amount of explosive force in a smaller volume (it provided 13 percent more compressive energy than Comp B). The composite uranium-plutonium
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of their ship, or refrain from inhaling the fallout dust, the firing crew that triggered the explosion safely sheltered in their firing station when they noticed the wind was carrying the fallout in the unanticipated direction towards the island of Enyu on the
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Both the ballistic case and hohlraum were perforated in these points so that light emanating from the nuclear components could travel unobstructed to the recording station. A slight drop in yield was expected because of those apertures, much like in the
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stations was established to monitor fallout following Operation Castle. Although meteorological data was poor, a general connection of tropospheric flow patterns with observed fallout was evident. There was a tendency for fallout/debris to remain in
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was Los Alamos' most recent product of design work on the "new principles" of the hollow core. A copper pit liner encased within the weapon-grade plutonium inner capsule prevented DT gas diffusion into the plutonium, a technique first tested in
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of the scatterer. There are two sources of X-rays in the hohlraum: the primary's irradiance, which is dominant at the beginning and during the pulse rise; and the wall, which is important during the required radiation temperature's
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to properly implode. This constant wall temperature is dictated by the ablation pressure requirements to drive compression, which lie on average at about 0.4 keV (out of a range of 0.2 to 2 keV), corresponding to several million
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which peaked at about 5.4 keV during boosted-fission. The final wall-temperature, which corresponds to energy of the wall-reradiated X-rays to the secondary's pusher, also drops due to losses from the hohlraum material itself.
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In an additional unexpected event, albeit one of far less consequence, X-rays traveling through line-of-sight (LOS) pipes caused a small second fireball at Station 1200 with a yield of 1 kiloton of TNT (4.2 TJ).
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lacked a decontamination washdown system, and was therefore ordered on February 27, to return to Pearl Harbor at the highest possible speed. A breakdown in her engine systems, namely a cracked cylinder liner, slowed
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Unanticipated fallout and the radiation emitted by it also affected many of the vessels and personnel involved in the test, in some cases forcing them into bunkers for several hours. In contrast to the crew of the
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was 565 to 586 nautical miles from ground zero. The fallout was at first thought to be harmless and there were no radiation detectors aboard, so no decontamination measures were taken. Measurements taken after
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tamper material would mix rapidly with the relatively low-density fusion fuel—leading to unacceptably large radiation losses—the stand-off gap also acted as a buffer to mitigate the unavoidable and undesirable
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mild radiation sickness of many (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea). The unexpected strength of the detonation, combined with shifting wind patterns, sent some of the radioactive fallout over the inhabited atolls of
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District Court, who acknowledged the fishermen's radiation exposure but could not "conclude that the state persistently gave up providing support and conducting health surveys to hide the radiation exposure".
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devices, or about 500 liters (110 imp gal; 130 U.S. gal), corresponding to about 400 kg of lithium deuteride (as LiD has a density of 0.78201 g/cm). The mixture cost about 4.54 
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island created for the event. From those pipes, mirrors would reflect early bomb light from the bomb casing to a series of remote high-speed cameras, and so that Los Alamos could determine both the
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and used the more compact ring lenses, a design feature shared with the Mark 5, 12, 13 and 18 designs. The explosive material of the inner charges in the MK 7 was changed to the more powerful
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efficiency. Because the structural foam holding the secondary in place within the casing was doped with B, the secondary was compressed more highly, at a cost of some radiated neutrons. (The
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in the ICF laser assemblies. This medium was a polystyrene plastic foam filling, extruded or impregnated with a low-molecular-weight hydrocarbon (possibly methane gas), which turned to a low-
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and other testing on the atoll also affected islanders who had previously inhabited the atoll, and who returned there some time after the tests. This was due to the presence of radioactive
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Although the atmospheric fallout plume drifted eastward, once fallout landed in the water it was carried in several directions by ocean currents, including northwest and southwest.
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fallout plume spread dangerous levels of radioactivity over an area over 280 miles (450 km) long, including inhabited islands. The contour lines show the cumulative radiation
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deposited into the hohlraum liner from primary's interface with the interstage (i.e. the primary's outer surface) were "cooler" than the maximum temperature of a fission device.
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result of the blast, the cloud contaminated more than 7,000 square miles (18,000 km) of the surrounding Pacific Ocean, including some of the surrounding small islands like
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of the design (i.e. the time interval between primary's firing and secondary's ignition) and the thermonuclear burn rate in these two crucial areas of the secondary device.
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device was housed in a cylinder that weighed 23,500 pounds (10,700 kg) and measured 179.5 inches (456 cm) in length and 53.9 inches (137 cm) in diameter.
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Attached to the cylindrical ballistic case was a natural-uranium liner, the radiation case, that was about 2.5 cm thick. Its internal surface was lined with
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event and yielded 61 kilotons of TNT (260 TJ) (out of 50–70 kt expected yield range). It was considered successful enough that the planned operation series
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The yield of 15 (± 5) Mt was triple that of the 5 Mt predicted by its designers. The cause of the higher yield was an error made by designers of the device at
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The thermonuclear burn would produce (like the fission fuel in the primary) pulsations (generations) of high-energy neutrons with an average temperature of 14
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were reported. The islanders received compensation from the U.S. government, relative to how much contamination they received, beginning in 1956; by 1995 the
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levels and thyroid cancer is still being researched. There are also correlations between fallout exposure levels and diseases such as thyroid disease like
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blast were instead vaporized instantly, while most of the instruments that were expected to be recovered for data retrieval were destroyed by the blast.
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reportedly stated independently that the first generation of thermonuclear weapons had (fusion) efficiencies varying from as low as 15% to up about 25%.
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Sputtering is the manifestation of the underdense plasma corona of the ablating hohlraum and the tamper surfaces. It is a problem also shared with (see
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Grossman, Charles M.; Morton, William E.; Nussbaum, Rudi H.; Goldberg, Mark S.; Mayo, Nancy E.; Levy, Adrian R.; Scott, Susan C. (January 1, 1999).
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test used almost pure lithium-6. Had sufficient lithium-6 been available, the usability of the common lithium-7 might not have been discovered.
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to one-third of her full speed, and when the Castle Bravo detonation took place, she was still about 180 to 195 nautical miles east of Bikini.
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deemed Rongelap safe to return, and allowed 82 inhabitants to move back to the island. Upon their return, they discovered that their previous
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with an energy greater than 2.47 MeV, rather than simply absorbing a neutron, it undergoes nuclear fission into an alpha particle, a tritium
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over 250 miles (400 km) away. The explosion left a crater 6,500 feet (2,000 m) in diameter and 250 feet (76 m) in depth. The
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fusion fuel in a stainless-steel canister. Running down to the center of the secondary was a 1.3 cm thick hollow cylindrical rod of
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design to tailor its opacity), which fly inside the radiation channel and absorb radiation or reflect it, hampering radiation "ducting".
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The physical principles of thermonuclear explosives, inertial confinement fusion, and the quest for fourth generation nuclear weapons
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When Bravo was detonated, within one second it formed a fireball almost 4.5 miles (7.2 km) across. This fireball was visible on
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In the Mark 7 HE system, the irregularities in the implosion front were relatively small rendering the pusher component unnecessary.
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reported that it had awarded $ 43.2 million, nearly its entire fund, to 1,196 claimants for 1,311 illnesses. A medical study, named
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plasma from the X-rays, and along with channeling radiation it modulated the ablation front on the high-Z surfaces; it "tamped" the
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with a standoff air-gap about 0.9 cm wide that was to increase the tamper's momentum, a levitation technique used as early as
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Page 36 from the Project 4.1 final report, showing four photographs of exposed Marshallese. Faces blotted out for privacy reasons.
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and deuterium, and in two reactions (with energies of 17.6 MeV and 4.8 MeV, mediated by a neutron and tritium) it produces two
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and gaseous fallout spread around the world. The inhabitants of the islands were evacuated only three days later and suffered
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material because the fission bomb's tamper, pusher and high-explosive lenses as well as interstage's plastic foam strongly
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as part of the normal biological process, but will also readily absorb caesium if present, being of the same group on the
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pointed to a diagram indicating that the wind shift was still in the range of "acceptable fallout", although just barely.
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respectively. On paper it was a scaled-down version of these devices, and its origins can be traced back to 1953. The
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Map showing points (X) where contaminated fish were caught or where the sea was found to be excessively radioactive.
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reactions. Its yield was 400 kilotons, and it could not be infinitely scaled, as with a true thermonuclear device.
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was in the range of nuclear fallout, which began landing on the ship in the mid-afternoon of March 2. By this time
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nonuniformities) of the primary's irradiance are of utmost importance. This was done with the introduction of the
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granular particles (made off uranium of Pb–Bi eutectic; the selected material depends on the "cocktail", or high-
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primary that was employed to create the conditions needed to start the fusion reaction, and its other end was a
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Summarizing, the reactions involving lithium-6 result in some combination of the two following net reactions:
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tapering and its mounting to the hohlraum apparently made the whole secondary assembly resemble the body of a
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and many later hydrogen weapons, were due to shortages in enriched lithium at that time, as the first of the
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There is a presumed association between radiation levels and functioning of the female reproductive system.
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that was about 240 μm thick, and made from 0.08-μm thick copper foil, to increase the overall albedo of the
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The device's firing crew was located on Enyu island, variously spelled as Eneu island, as depicted here
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It was assumed that the lithium-7 would absorb one neutron, producing lithium-8, which decays (through
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The exposure to fallout has been linked to increase the likelihood of several types of cancer such as
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Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute, Lovelace Biomedical & Environmental Research Institute
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The device was mounted in a "shot cab" on an artificial island built on a reef off Namu Island, in
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The fission reactions of the natural uranium tamper were quite dirty, producing a large amount of
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Both SAUSAGE and the two RUNTs (SAUSAGE's "lithiated" versions) had fusion fuel volumes of 840
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joint to the rest of the secondary assembly. The shield-tamper ensemble can be visualized as a
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But when lithium-7 is present, one also has some amounts of the following two net reactions:
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of the Castle Bravo device by studying the ratio and presence of tell-tale isotopes, namely
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associated with meteorological disturbances of the predominantly zonal flow. Outside of the
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The Soviet Union had previously used lithium deuteride in its Sloika design (known as the "
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Domination and Resistance: The United States and the Marshall Islands during the Cold War
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The cylindrical hole was plugged with B-doped paraffin wax to time the neutrons' arrival.
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test. The hot-spot openings, similar to the "starburst" diagnostics in hohlraums used in
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reduced. Therefore, hohlraum liners require the use of copper (or, as in other devices,
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and increase the yield in a predicted manner. Lithium-6 indeed reacted in this manner.
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The detonation took place at 06:45 on March 1, 1954, local time (18:45 on February 28
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pipes attached to the middle and left section of the device. These pipe sections were
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The decision to carry out the Bravo test under the prevailing winds was made by Dr.
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is the sixth largest nuclear explosion in history, exceeded by the Soviet tests of
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device did not use B in its design; as a result, the intense neutron flux from its
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of the fusion fuel) to the point needed to sustain a thermonuclear reaction. (see
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was at least in theory and in many critical aspects identical in geometry to the
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test of 1952, the 1954 Castle Bravo test was likewise heavily instrumented with
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can enter the radiation channel that has to be open for the radiation transit.
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These losses were associated with material's properties like back-scattering,
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The Teller–Ulam-based "Ivy Mike" device had a much greater yield of 10.4 
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received the greatest total fallout, about five times that received in Japan.
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indicated the importance of lighter thermonuclear weapons for delivery by the
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Strategic Air Command History Development of Atomic Weapons 1956, pp. 29, 39
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led to an increase in antinuclear protests in Japan. It was compared to the
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The Castle Bravo detonation and the subsequent poisoning of the crew aboard
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as its fusion fuel. Natural lithium is a mixture of lithium-6 and lithium-7
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Tamper is the metal cladding encasing the secondary, and it is also termed
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This temperature range is compatible with a hohlraum filling made of a low-
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and fallout times, and arrive at more accurate meteorological models after
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The reaction would produce high-energy neutrons with 14 MeV, and its
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had returned to Pearl Harbor suggested an exposure range of 0.18 to 0.62
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atolls, which were evacuated 48 hours after the detonation. In 1957, the
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for medical care. Several weeks later, many people began suffering from
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lower levels of lithium enrichment in the fuel slugs, compared with the
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Simon, Steven L.; Bouville, André; Land, Charles E. (January 1, 2006).
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accurate compression (LA-1632, table 4.1). At the same time, since the
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Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men: The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda
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responded to this indication with a follow-up enriched version of the
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was the first test by the United States of a practical deliverable
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used to sample the air at stratospheric altitudes; the research (
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device. The radiation case had a parabolic end, which housed the
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in the process, of which the latter would then fuse with the
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in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. September 15, 2012
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Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic Testing and American Politics
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Castle Bravo mushroom cloud a few seconds after detonation
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1954 U.S. thermonuclear weapon test in the Marshall Islands
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Lauerman, John F.; Reuther, Christopher (September 1997).
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radiation case so that material from neither of these two
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Newton, Richard G.; Cuddihy, George J. (September 1985).
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Not to be confused with the function of the fusion tamper
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The Jetter cycle is a combination of reactions involving
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The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet
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warned of the contamination of milk with strontium-90.
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in locally grown coconut milk. Plants and trees absorb
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In a similar manner to the earlier pipes filled with a
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from the test were later captured with balloon-borne
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to a 3/4 scale radiation-implosion system called the
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was about 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic
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(2023). 2553:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1662: 682:, which was slated to be tested as the initial 664:), which required elaborate cooling equipment. 4666:First-person article about conducting the test 3692: 3666: 3534: 3480:"Castle Bravo: Fifty Years of Legend and Lore" 3438: 3392:Parsons, Keith M.; Zaballa, Robert A. (2017). 3391: 2844:T-4 Handbook of Material Properties Data Bases 2696: 2694: 2692: 2690: 2688: 2686: 2684: 2682: 2680: 2678: 2638: 686:. It also used a 3.7-inch-thick (9.5 cm) 250:-fueled thermonuclear weapon tested using the 4691: 3942: 3477: 3282:"LANL: Los Alamos Science: LA Science No. 28" 2797: 2722: 2304:layer was thinner it was less opaque for the 1582: 1215:, nested in the steel canister. This was the 1207:This secondary assembly device contained the 1052:, as also seen in Bravo's declassified film. 3571: 3439:Glasstone, Samuel; Dolan, Philip J. (1977). 3220:. 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Thus, 1961:Learn how and when to remove this message 1827:) was conducted to better understand the 1782: 1734: 1731:per hour" was recorded above the bunker. 1560:, the task force commander Major General 1527: 1122: 4511: 3995:World-Wide Fallout from Operation Castle 3442:The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (3rd ed.) 3179: 3151: 2489: 2384:; both terms can be used interchangeably 2049: 2004:their first Teller–Ulam device in 1955. 1693: 1624: 1531: 1428: 1364: 1315: 1126: 1095: 961: 621: 542:Expected: 5 megatons of TNT (21 PJ) 220:was the first in a series of high-yield 5351:International Day against Nuclear Tests 3967: 3929: 3875: 3835: 3756: 3244:from the original on December 21, 2021. 2936: 2147:song "Memorabilia" from his 2012 album 2011:was a militarily sensitive issue, with 1590:was spread eastward onto the inhabited 545:Actual: 15 megatons of TNT (63 PJ) 5425: 3878:"Forgotten atrocity of the atomic age" 3762: 3698: 3628: 3262:from the original on December 23, 2016 3188: 3157: 3089: 3072: 2872: 2838: 2810: 2700: 2606: 2490:Rowberry, Ariana (November 30, 2001). 2083:(hair loss) and skin lesions as well. 2062:estimated that 253 inhabitants of the 1147:The secondary assembly was the actual 4679: 4410: 4408: 4109: 3844: 3734:"50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons" 3387: 3385: 3383: 3345: 3292: 3218:"Operation CASTLE Commander's Report" 3040: 2967: 2111: 5390:Reactor-grade plutonium nuclear test 5315:Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy 4385:Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation 4340:(3181): 1178–1179. 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Monthly Review Press. p. 73. 2153:mentions both the Castle Bravo and 2042:and entered into production again. 1815:Stratospheric fallout particles of 1013:, and the secondary needs constant 676:and its weaponized derivative, the 13: 4405: 4243: 4058: 3744:from the original on July 19, 2011 3380: 2922: 2832: 2124:bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2060:United States Department of Energy 1383:bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima 881: 14: 5489: 4610: 4199:Environmental Health Perspectives 3600:"The Ghost Fleet of Bikini Atoll" 2045: 1866: 1417:) ≈20 Mt Soviet tests in 1962 at 877: 554: 4656:US tests hydrogen bomb in Bikini 4594:10.1097/00004032-199707000-00014 4482:10.1097/00001648-199903000-00024 4061:"Caesium biological information" 3993:List, Robert J. 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The final version tested in 736:Los Alamos National Laboratory 510:136.90 cm (53.90 in) 467: 445:Los Alamos National Laboratory 374: 224:design tests conducted by the 1: 5433:1950s in the Marshall Islands 4354:10.1126/science.122.3181.1178 4144:Science & Global Security 3643:10.1016/s0140-6736(55)92780-x 3604:Mystery of Old World Cultures 3572:Smith-Norris, Martha (2016). 3350:. Reno: University of Nevada. 3346:Titus, A. Costandina (2001). 2647:"What Was the U.S. GDP Then?" 2607:Foster, John Bellamy (2009). 2272: 2007:The publication of the Bravo 1424: 1405:at 24.2 Mt, and three other ( 1311: 872:device, with humans for scale 710:devices later proof-fired in 571:deuterium-tritium gas-boosted 68:Location within Pacific Ocean 5463:March 1954 events in Oceania 3516:"Les cobayes du Dr Folamour" 2898:10.1016/0029-554X(64)90131-4 2323:National Bureau of Standards 428:Ben Diven (project engineer) 7: 4512:Brothers, Peter H. (2009). 4255:The British Medical Journal 4135:Geer, Lars-Erik De (1991). 3949:. Albuquerque, New Mexico: 2434:inertial confinement fusion 2224: 2094:. The relationship between 1800:, with incursions into the 1663: 1491:n + Li → H + He + 4.783 MeV 1255:and described by physicist 10: 5494: 4560:(Arlington: AeroFax, 1988) 4533:Donald Fagen – Memorabilia 4389:Princeton University Press 3522:(in French). 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mushroom cloud
Castle Bravo is located in Pacific Ocean
Operation Castle
Bikini Atoll
Coordinates
11°41′50″N 165°16′19″E / 11.69722°N 165.27194°E / 11.69722; 165.27194
Atmospheric
megatons of TNT
PJ
Upshot–Knothole Climax
Castle Romeo
thermonuclear weapon
United States
Bikini Atoll
Marshall Islands
Operation Castle
nuclear device
lithium deuteride
Teller-Ulam design
yield
megatons of TNT
PJ
lithium-7
radioactive contamination
Fallout
Rongelap
Utirik
particulate
radiation sickness

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