How are you able to more concretely define "dwarfed"? In the video I watched called "C.7 Calculating energy released in nuclear reactions (HL)" by Mike Sugiyama Jones, it seems that mole-for-mole, fission produces 10x more energy then fusion, but fusion still releases huge quantities of energy. For fusion to be "dwarfed" by fission in a hydrogen bomb, I would infer that there has to be a lot more fissile material than fusionable material present. I get that more neutrons become available for the fission to occur, but is that the only factor?

your post is confusing. There are lots of h bombs with yields in excess of one megaton, but i have never heard of a fission bomb greater than .5 megaton. And the fission bomb in an h bomb is quite small, in the kiloton range. The purpose of the plutonium rod in the LiDu is to serve as sort of anvil against the uranium or lead tamper . Also serves as a source of neutrons to fission the lithium into tritium.compare the net energy of a deuterium/tritium fusion to u235 fission. The rate of fusion is proportional to density and kinetic energy of the reacting particles. In the core of the sun, the density is about 200 times that of water. And fusion in the core of the sun proceeds at a leisurely rate, less energy produced per unit volume than in a fermenting manure pile. Who knows what the density of the burning hydrogen in a bomb is?

@@user-cr5yy4te3i An H-bomb is a fission device boosted by the release of neutrons by the fusion of Hydrogen or Lithium. There is so much nonsensical word salad in your post that I don't know where to start. The bottom line is that you have no idea what is really going on in an H-bomb, you've just picked words out of some articles somewhere and threw them together in phrases that you feel sound super-scientific and reinforce your sci-fi notions but the truth is that they make no sense, realistically. I'm not going to waste a whole lot of time re-explaining everything here. For an explanation just re-read what I posted or look it up somewhere. You need to research the topic and do it without any preconceived notions as to what a Hydrogen bomb is and how it works. I suggest that you find the information from reputable source and not youtube or Quora.

@@user-cr5yy4te3i Here is my explanation of what occurs in an H-bomb. (While fusion can result in a very energetic release an H-bomb is not configured to release large amounts of energy directly through the process of fusion. The fusion reaction 'boosts' the fission reactions via a release of neutrons. The huge amount of destructive force produced by an H-bomb is the result of the fission process and the fusion reaction, while relatively energetic, is small in comparison to the fission component. This information is out there for all to see but if you read it with the belief (bias) that fusion in an H-bomb is some sort of heretofore magnificent explosive force that dwarfs anything else then that is what you will incorrectly believe. I know you won't believe me so go ask Neil D'grasse Tyson, he'll explain it to you.). ----------------------------------------------------------- The fusion reaction in a staged nuclear weapon does NOT produce a more destructive reaction than the fission reactions; the fusion reaction only helps to promote a more powerful fission explosion due to the release of a huge number of extra neutrons which is the key to causing fission reactions in large unstable atoms such as Uranium or Plutonium. These 'extra' neutrons help to produce many more fission reactions within the weapon's fuel, that would normally escape the explosion without undergoing the fission process. In other words the only thing that the fusion reaction does is that it provides a huge number of extra neutrons that normally would not be there in order to cause a large number of extra fission reactions, hence causing a larger explosion. The fusion reaction does not produce some sort of mythical explosive force by itself, it only acts as a catalyst to cause a larger number of fission reactions.

@@80sandretrogubbins25 Well, I tend to agree with you. Fusion can be configured to release tremendous amounts of energy and comparatively by mass fusion fuels release more energy. It gets complicated to explain but I follow what you are saying. I'm only trying to explain that in a thermonuclear weapon of 'today' the fusion process is not configured to be the part that creates the huge destructive force, directly that is. It is the fission that creates the 'lions share' of energy boosted by the release of neutrons from the fusion reactions. The fusion component isn't configured or expected to cause the destructive force, directly that is.

Good observation! The negative sign in the equation takes care of this. Notice 0.151-(-0.257) becomes 0.151 + 0.257.

deuterium and tritium are hydrogens

The sun has fusion occurring, like the bomb, but unlike fission it is not really a chain reaction. Not a nuclear chain reaction anyway, like fission is.

Haha, not anymore. Apparently this isn't the best lesson.