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When there is nuclear blast does it imploded? Explain?

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    1 decade ago
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    Nuclear fission bombs usually implode their cores to generate the fast fissile chain reaction. The core is a hollow sphere of plutonium, surrounded by a thick, spherical jacket of chemical explosive. When the jacket detonates, it generates a spherical shockwave inward which compresses the plutonium to criticality.

  • 1 decade ago

    Up to now there was no implosion of a nuclear blast. Principally it can happen, however. Similar was Chernobyl, the so-called nuclear melting. It was a GAU, not a Super-GAU, fortunately.

  • 1 decade ago

    No, it is an explosion not an implosion. A nuclear blast creates tons of energy from a relatively small place, this creates the explosion.

    I could be wrong though, im no scientist.

  • 1 decade ago

    pay attention to you English teacher. The science teacher can answer your question, but you need the English teacher

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