Sentence examples for fissile plutonium from inspiring English sources

One method is to burn natural uranium in a nuclear reactor to generate fissile plutonium.

Under the deal's terms, Iran accepted that the Arak reactor would be reconfigured so it could not yield fissile plutonium usable in a nuclear bomb.

These would have the nifty trick of generating their own fuel, since fast neutrons can convert non-fissile isotopes of uranium into highly fissile plutonium.

That matters, because the nuclear reaction which turns the non-fissile form of uranium into fissile plutonium, from which bombs can be built, makes antineutrinos.

The fissile plutonium concentration is 0.32 0.44 g cm−3.

Monju was intended to demonstrate the practicality of using highly fissile plutonium as a nuclear fuel, instead of the uranium used in conventional nuclear power plants.

The nonfissile uranium-238 can be converted to fissile plutonium-239 by the following nuclear reactions: In this equation, uranium-238, through the absorption of a neutron (n) and the emission of a quantum of energy known as a gamma ray, becomes the isotope uranium-239 (the higher mass number reflecting the presence of one more neutron in the nucleus).

Fast neutrons emitted from the core transform the uranium-238 into fissile plutonium-239, which can be used as reactor fuel.

Uranium-238 is fissionable by fast neutrons, and is fertile, meaning it can be transmuted to fissile plutonium-239 in a nuclear reactor.

Plutonium recovered from spent reactor fuel poses a less significant proliferation hazard, because of excessive contamination with non-fissile plutonium-240 and plutonium-242.

Reactor-grade plutonium (with a fissile Pu fraction of 59.6%) and weapons-grade plutonium (with a fissile Pu fraction of 94.0%) were assumed to be the feed Pu material for the MOX fuel rods in the BWR and PWR examples, respectively.