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Tritium, a hydrogen isotope with one proton ... The most powerful thermonuclear bomb tested, the Tsar Bomba, boasted a 50-megaton yield but was deemed too impractical for combat.

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Tritium production will take place on the premises ... The largest thermonuclear bomb ever, Tsar Bomba, had a yield of 50 megatons but was impractical for military use. Normally, much weaker ...

1 nuclear power plant. And despite the presence of small amounts of radioactive tritium, it said no abnormalities have been detected in Pacific Ocean fish stocks. Aug. 24 marked the first ...

A particle accelerator in Oxfordshire is to rip up atoms to generate a crucial element for nuclear fusion, under plans ...

By May, a test explosion used a fission bomb to successfully ignite a small quantity of deuterium and tritium. In September, Los Alamos proposed testing the Teller-Ulam concept in November 1952.

To alleviate negative publicity, the government plans to quadruple the number of tritium-monitoring points in the ocean ahead of planned release of water accumulating at the crippled Fukushima No.