Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:28:36 PM No.63859723
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnium_controversy
The hafnium controversy was a debate over the possibility of "triggering" rapid energy releases, via gamma-ray emission, from 178m2Hf, a nuclear isomer of hafnium. The energy release per event is 5 orders of magnitude (100,000 times) higher than in a typical chemical reaction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_gamma_emission#Fusion_bomb_ignition
FUSION BOMB IGNITION: The density of gammas produced in this reaction would be high enough that it might allow them to be used to compress the fusion fuel of a fusion bomb. If this turns out to be the case, it might allow a fusion bomb to be constructed with no fissile material inside (i.e. a pure fusion weapon); it is the control of the fissile material and the means for making it that underlies most attempts to stop nuclear proliferation.
Iran has figured this out, and it's actually an easier technological pathway than the HEU route for lowly atomic weapons.
The hafnium controversy was a debate over the possibility of "triggering" rapid energy releases, via gamma-ray emission, from 178m2Hf, a nuclear isomer of hafnium. The energy release per event is 5 orders of magnitude (100,000 times) higher than in a typical chemical reaction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_gamma_emission#Fusion_bomb_ignition
FUSION BOMB IGNITION: The density of gammas produced in this reaction would be high enough that it might allow them to be used to compress the fusion fuel of a fusion bomb. If this turns out to be the case, it might allow a fusion bomb to be constructed with no fissile material inside (i.e. a pure fusion weapon); it is the control of the fissile material and the means for making it that underlies most attempts to stop nuclear proliferation.
Iran has figured this out, and it's actually an easier technological pathway than the HEU route for lowly atomic weapons.
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