fissile
IPA: fˈɪsʌɫ
adjective
- Able to be split.
- (geology) Easily split along a grain.
- (physics) Capable of sustaining a nuclear fission chain reaction.
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Examples of "fissile" in Sentences
- Fissile nuclides used as nuclear fuel.
- A rule for determining fissile isotopes.
- Coal mining doesn't produce fissile material.
- Getting the fissile material is the hard part.
- Any nuclear fission requires fissile material.
- The fissile material is the fuel, it is the energy source.
- To determine the origin of the fissile material in the bombs.
- Demilitarization makes the fissile material unusable in weapons.
- The 238U is not fissile but still fissionable by fusion neutrons.
- Only the spark plug at the axis of the secondary needed to be fissile.
- The term 'nuclear materials' (also known as fissile materials) refers to the substances which, by undergoing rapid nuclear fission, provide the explosive energy of nuclear weapons.
- And, Paula, this is a much, much, much greater threat than any threat from an ICBM missile and there's an awful lot of this what they call, the scientists call fissile material, the material that makes a nuclear explosion.
- In May 2009 the United Nations 'Conference on Disarmament agreed to hold talks on an international treaty to ban the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons, generally referred to as a fissile material cutoff treaty.
- Furthermore, to judge from the reports that have been written about a global black market in fissile materials, perhaps you could sit on the periphery — say in Istanbul — and with relatively little risk allow the uranium to come to you.
- What intelligence analysts think is more likely is what's called fissile or a dirty bomb, which would using radioactive material that would not create a nuclear explosion, but there would be a explosion that would spread radioactivity over an area and make it uninhabitable for several years.
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