The Iranian documents repeatedly mention a specific substance used for making neutron initiators: uranium
deuteride.
He said: "Hydrogen bombs use lithium
deuteride and it is not known if North Korea has the infrastructure to create such material.
Crenshaw, "The dissociation pressures of sodium
deuteride and sodium hydride," Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol.
Using Herschel, they were able to take a fresh look at the disk with the space telescope to analyze light coming from TW Hydrae and pick out the spectral signature of a gas called hydrogen
deuteride. Simple hydrogen molecules are the main gas component of planets, but they emit light at wavelengths too short to be detected by Herschel.
It called on Iran to provide clarifications regarding "experiments involving the explosive compression of uranium
deuteride to produce a short burst of neutrons."
He proposed to use lithium-6
deuteride, which would make tritium and facilitate deuterium-tritium fusion reactions.
The document revealed in the The Times of London report described the use o= f a neutron source, uranium
deuteride, which experts said had no possible u= se other than in a nuclear weapon.
So, on an afternoon somewhere in the Pacific, in the year before my birth, Teller and his minions supervised the wrapping of a regular, atomic bomb in a casing of lithium
deuteride. This compound, when exposed to the immense heat of the atomic blast and the release of radiation, would do two things: first, it would transmute the lithium into tritium; second, it would fuse the tritium and the deuterium in the compound together.
When the beam struck a target of erbium
deuteride, neutron particles were emitted from the target with precisely the energy expected if they were generated by the fusion of two deuterium nuclei.