Sentence examples for fissile layer from inspiring English sources

A basic limitation of such booster units is of course the limited lifetime of the thin fissile layer due to burn up and fission product poisoning.

The thickness of the required fissile layer depends on the type of fissile material, its concentration in the layer and on the geometrical arrangement, but is typically in the μm mm range.

Thin fissile layers have a variety of applications in nuclear technology for example in the design neutron amplifiers for medical applications and "fast" islands in thermal reactors for waste incineration.

In those applications a layer of fissile material surrounds the spallation source.

Current Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) designs incorporate TRi-structural ISOtropic (TRISO) fuel, which consists of a spherical fissile fuel kernel surrounded by layers of pyrolytic carbon and silicon carbide.

One layer might consist of fissile material, such as enriched uranium, and the next might be fusion fuel, usually in the form of lithium deuteride.

The fabrication of pits, along with the manufacture of the dense beryllium tamper and reflector layers that surround a fissile core, was subsequently relocated to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, one of the two laboratories in the United States where nuclear weapons are designed (the other is the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California).

One can design a critical system with fissile material in the form of a thin layer on the inner surface of a cylindrical neutron moderator such as graphite or beryllium.

The unweathered lithology includes black highly fractured (fissile) carbon-rich strata, gray mildly fractured thinly layered (laminated) strata, and light-gray weakly fractured massive strata.

The first design, proposed by Sakharov in 1948, consisted of alternating layers of deuterium and uranium-238 between a fissile core and a surrounding chemical high explosive.

Later in 1948 Sakharov proposed a design in which alternating layers of deuterium and uranium are placed between the fissile core of an atomic bomb and the surrounding chemical high explosive.