Is this statement true? " the first atomic bomb using uranium empolys the fission concept"?

Answer 1

I dont know if it employed fisshing but it sure unemployed about 200,000 nips

Answer 2

Yes, Uranium is split in the fission process that is used in conventional atomic bombs (including the first one). Fusion is used in the H-bomb where Hydrogen with one or two neutrons is fused together to form different elements and Energy.

Answer 3

fission is the breakup of an atom into pieces, releasing huge amounts of energy. Fusion is the combination of atoms to form a higher atomic mass element. Uranium has high atomic mass, therefore it participates in fission reaction, while hydrogen bombs employ fusion reaction.

Answer 4

Yep. the first atomic bombs used the principle of nuclear fission.

Bombs which were purely fission bombs had an inherent size limit.

Hydrogen bombs (also called thermonuclear bombs) were developed later and use a hybrid of both fission and fusion to make the bomb more powerful.

Answer 5

Yes. The very first one was a test bomb, employing U-235 as fixile material. The first launched was again a U-235 fission bomb (Hiroshima, August 6th 1945), a very low efficency (1.5%), gun-triggered, 14.5 kton, named "Little Boy". The second launch (Nagasaki, August 9th 1945) was a Pu-239, 23 kton, 17% efficency, "Fat Man", bomb.
Fission is also employed as first step in fusion bombs, used to reach locally the very high temperatures needed to begin the fusion process.

Answer 6

Yes, the first atomic bomb, tested in New Mexico was a fission device, as were the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Nuclear fusion bombs or hydrogen bombs were not tested until 1952.

Answer 7

Yes it is true. It also employs fusion. Heres an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"A nuclear weapon is a weapon which derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of either nuclear fission or the more powerful fusion. As a result, even a nuclear weapon with a relatively small yield is significantly more powerful than the largest conventional explosives, and a single weapon is capable of destroying an entire city."

Answer 8

Yes, because pure fusion is a reaction that has yet to be dulpicated on Earth, (thankfully!). It's the process that makes stars.

However, I have heard that certain fission reactions also employ fusion to get the reaction started.

Answer 9

yup
it is true
atomic bomb usses concept of uncontrolled fission chain reaction using uranium.
and,
hydrogen bomb uses concept of un controlled nuclear fusion reaction.

Answer 10

Yes, but if you are really interested in all the nitty gritty details about the nuclear bomb and how it came to being I'd recommend the following website: (see below)

Answer 11

Only fission.Only solar energy comes by fusion.If energy can be obtained on earth by fusion we dont have to worry about oil from Arabs.