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"a fissionable nucleous" "fissionable material"adjectivecapable of undergoing nuclear fission
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Definition that contains fissionable
- supercritical (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases
- critical mass the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction
- nuclear terrorism the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials
- denature add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb
- plutonium 239 a highly fissionable isotope of plutonium that is used in atomic weapons and as a reactor fuel; produced by irradiating uranium 238 with slow electrons
- uranium 238 the commonest isotope of uranium; it is not fissionable but when irradiated with neutrons it produces fissionable plutonium 239