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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (912383)1/6/2016 1:31:07 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (2) of 1576641
 
From what I hear, it looks like NK didn't really test an H-bomb, but an enhanced fission bomb. Even this is said to have been a failure. Real H-bombs are very difficult to produce, requiring a lot of very high tech working together. India and Pakistan are doubted to have them.

Foam plasma mechanism firing sequence.
Warhead before firing; primary (fission bomb) at top, secondary (fusion fuel) at bottom, all suspended in polystyrene foam.High-explosive fires in primary, compressing plutonium core into supercriticality and beginning a fission reaction.Fission primary emits X-rays which are scattered along the inside of the casing, irradiating the polystyrene foam.Polystyrene foam becomes plasma, compressing secondary, and plutonium sparkplug begins to fission.Compressed and heated, lithium-6 deuteride fuel produces tritium and begins the fusion reaction. The neutron flux produced causes the U-238 tamper to fission. A fireball starts to form.
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