Sentence examples for fissile core from inspiring English sources

Enrichment can produce reactor fuel or the fissile core for a warhead.

In thermonuclear weapons, the fusion material can be incorporated directly in (or proximate to) the fissile core for example, in the boosted fission device or external to the fissile core, or both.

The main conflict is over uranium enrichment, which can create both reactor fuel and the fissile core of nuclear arms.

That can be used for reactor fuel, or – if further enriched – the fissile core of a weapon.

Enriched uranium can be used as fuel to power nuclear reactors as well as to make the fissile core of an atom bomb.

Last month, Iran announced plans to dramatically increase its pace of uranium enrichment, which can be used to make both reactor fuel and the fissile core of warheads.

Tehran has enriched small amounts of uranium at levels far below the purity used to make the fissile cores of nuclear warheads.

Both enriched uranium and plutonium have legitimate civilian uses, but they are also essential as the fissile cores for bombs.Next week, the IAEA will report its "concern" about other discrepancies its inspectors have found since Iran belatedly owned up to its enrichment activities in February.

There is no evidence that Iran has decided to make a nuclear weapon, just that it appears to looking at the technical options should it one day make that decision, and meanwhile amassing an uranium stock that potentially provide the fissile cores for its warheads.

Moreover, the fissile cores of the warheads are separated from the conventional, i.e., non-nuclear explosives.

It drew bomb components, except for fissile cores, from the AEC, and deployed by air to Wendover Field, Utah.