Atoms And Nuclei

The explosive in a Hydrogen bomb is a mixture of \({ }_1 \mathrm{H}^2,{ }_1 \mathrm{H}^3\) and \({ }_3 \mathrm{Li}^6\) in some condensed form. The chain reaction is given by

$$\begin{aligned} & { }_3 \mathrm{Li}^6+{ }_0 \mathrm{n}^1 \rightarrow{ }_2 \mathrm{He}^4+{ }_1 \mathrm{H}^3 \\ & { }_1 \mathrm{H}^2+{ }_1 \mathrm{H}^3 \rightarrow{ }_2 \mathrm{He}^4+{ }_0 \mathrm{n}^1 \end{aligned}$$

During the explosion the energy released is approximately

[Given ; \(\mathrm{M}(\mathrm{Li})=6.01690 \mathrm{~amu}, \mathrm{M}\left({ }_1 \mathrm{H}^2\right)=2.01471 \mathrm{~amu}, \mathrm{M}\left({ }_2 \mathrm{He}^4\right)=4.00388\) \(\mathrm{amu}\), and \(1 \mathrm{~amu}=931.5 \mathrm{~MeV}]\)