File:Ivy Mike Sausage device.jpg
Summary
The Sausage device of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike" class="extiw" title="en:Ivy Mike">Mike</a> nuclear test (yield 10.4 Mt) on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enewetak_Atoll" class="extiw" title="en:Enewetak Atoll">Enewetak Atoll</a>. The test was part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy" class="extiw" title="en:Operation Ivy">Operation Ivy</a>. The Sausage was the first true H-Bomb ever tested, that is - the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon" class="extiw" title="en:Thermonuclear weapon">thermonuclear</a> device built upon the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller%E2%80%93Ulam_design" class="extiw" title="en:Teller–Ulam design">Teller-Ulam</a> principles of staged radiation implosion. It consisted of a thick steel radiation case (left), containing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_5_nuclear_bomb" class="extiw" title="en:Mark 5 nuclear bomb">TX-5 fission bomb</a> at bottom as a trigger, and above it a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic_storage_dewar" class="extiw" title="en:Cryogenic storage dewar">dewar</a> containing several hundred liters of liquid <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium" class="extiw" title="en:Deuterium">deuterium</a>, the fusion fuel, and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium" class="extiw" title="en:Plutonium">plutonium</a> rod called the "sparkplug" to initiate the fusion reaction. The large pipes at right are "light pipes" to conduct the initial radiation emitted by the explosion to remote instruments to study the physics of the thermonuclear reactions.
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| current | 01:21, 5 January 2017 | | 1,600 × 1,166 (413 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | The <i>Sausage</i> device of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike" class="extiw" title="en:Ivy Mike">Mike</a> nuclear test (yield 10.4 Mt) on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enewetak_Atoll" class="extiw" title="en:Enewetak Atoll">Enewetak Atoll</a>. The test was part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy" class="extiw" title="en:Operation Ivy">Operation Ivy</a>. The Sausage was the first true H-Bomb ever tested, that is - the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon" class="extiw" title="en:Thermonuclear weapon">thermonuclear</a> device built upon the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller%E2%80%93Ulam_design" class="extiw" title="en:Teller–Ulam design">Teller-Ulam</a> principles of staged radiation implosion. It consisted of a thick steel radiation case <i>(left)</i>, containing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_5_nuclear_bomb" class="extiw" title="en:Mark 5 nuclear bomb">TX-5 fission bomb</a> at bottom as a trigger, and above it a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic_storage_dewar" class="extiw" title="en:Cryogenic storage dewar">dewar</a> containing several hundred liters of liquid <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium" class="extiw" title="en:Deuterium">deuterium</a>, the fusion fuel, and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium" class="extiw" title="en:Plutonium">plutonium</a> rod called the "sparkplug" to initiate the fusion reaction. The large pipes at right are "light pipes" to conduct the initial radiation emitted by the explosion to remote instruments to study the physics of the thermonuclear reactions. |
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