Yeah, but she'll be able to head butt like never before.

MMA:
"Sorry ma'am, but you've got more than 5 grams of titanium in your skull; we can't allow you to fight."

You've seriously limited her future options for gainful employment, nice job, assholes!

Wow ... No solid states? Sucks to be you, bro!

That isn't correct. While in a reactor Plutonium, or Uranium (fission) will produce more energy than fusion per nucleon, that is the average energy over the life of all of the decay products:

http://periodictable.com/Isoto...

The majority of the decay products takes far longer than a full second to be produced, so they aren't relevant to the detonation, or the brisance of the device.

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/...

In the environment of a reactor, you can simply wait long enough, and extract the full energy as Plutonium is converted between a dozen different elements, but in a bomb, speed is king, so the slow fission products don't add meaningful amounts of force, or power to the explosion. Fusion boosters don't have a critical mass, so you can pack in as much of them as you want.

That makes me think of the buzz bomb videos on youtube, can you imagine a fusion / fission version of that? It would have to be deafening.

could be classified.

I guess those carrots were grown with special tritium water?

That depends; is your name Podkletnov?

We don't actually know that for certain:

http://aviationweek.com/techno...

FTFY

By far the majority of the power comes from the Lithium 6 Deuteride fusion booster, that sits between the U238 outer shell, and the actual core. The U238 helps, but it is not the most significant boost. The U238 is actually meant to create more neutrons in order to seed more Fusion; so that not as much of the fusion 'fuel' is lost to the explosion. I suspect it was also because after enrichment they have all of this 'depleted uranium' lying around, so why not put it to good use? It may only be a 40% boost (I don't know the actual number), but it is free!

Iron is the most stable nuclide (with Nickel being a close second), so creating elements above them requires energy. Not all heavier elements are radioactive though. The higher the ratio of neutrons to protons, the more likely the element is to be radioactive. There are so called 'islands of stability', just like with electron shells. Then there are also the double magic nuclei. I think that effect is the most interesting thing I have seen in all of Physics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

One of those higher magic numbered nuclei (elements we have not detected yet) are probably the fuel that the Annunaki used in their spaceships to enslave humanity 241,000 years ago...Just sayin.

Pu239 isn't really all that nasty in smallish quantities. The half life is large at over 24,000 years. It is Alpha decay (a helium nucleus, which is effectively stopped by the dead layer of skin on our bodies.) It only becomes an issue when it is near a source of neutrons, since it will 'respond' by generating a cascade of many more neutrons than each one that is absorbed.

It's natural decay can provide this source of neutrons hence you don't want to be near a large of enough quantity of it, as it will be generating a lot of neutrons from the 'chain reaction'.

So if all of it is in a sphere in the middle of the room, stay the hell away from it. If the same quantity is scattered as shot across the floor, it's not such an issue.

Boronated parafin. Parafin by itself doesn't do much. It's the Boron that has the high 'neutron cross section'

U238 is only used as the outer 'shielding' of Nuclear weapons as it when does absorb neutrons that are generated by the bomb detonating it creates a cascade of more neutrons generated than the just one that hit it, some of which go back toward the Lithium 6 Deuteride inner 'shielding'. This essentially 'reflects' neutrons back into the core, which can significantly increase the yield of a nuke. The Lithium 6 Deuteride is responsible for the 'Fusion boosted' part. The U238 just 'prevents' some of the neutrons from 'escaping'.

The technical term is neutron cross section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Maybe they have. They are after all a defense contractor, and if something like this was working it wouldn't be not classified.