Tsar Bomba

CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider

Region of greatest stability

235U

Tipler and Mosca, Phsyics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th ed, 2004.

(a) Atomic Mass Unit = 931.494 MeV/c2

(b) 1 MeV = 1.602 x 10-13 J

http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Compositions/index.html

Atomic Masses

-------------- 2.014101778

235U

Tipler and Mosca, Phsyics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th ed, 2004.

FUSION

235U

Tipler and Mosca, Phsyics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th ed, 2004.

FISSION