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• The Conference on Disarmament is seeking to start formal negotiations on banning production of fissile materials such as weapons-grade plutonium and uranium.
• In other words, the fissile material produced by these reactors is recycled at least twice until the final waste results in an actinide-free byproduct that has a half life of about 200 years. Think Progress » Demoralizing His Supporters, Obama Calls Nukes, Coal, And Oil Drilling ‘Clean Energy Jobs’
• One of the biggest areas of concern for the IAEA is evidence that Iranian scientists have conducted research on hemispherical arrays of explosives, of a type used in the construction of nuclear weapons to crush a spherical core of fissile material and thereby trigger a chain reaction. Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead
• The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
• 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. The Hindu - Front Page
• Smuggling can potentially provide fissile material for nuclear weapons or a wider range of radioactive materials for use in ‘dirty bombs’.
• Element 114m has a very high cross-section for thermal neutrons, making it a most potent fissile material. FLOATING CITY
• 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. CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2001
• No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissile uranium has now decayed below that needed for a sustainable reaction.
• It resumed the production, and testing of uranium enrichment centrifuges that can make fissile material for nuclear reactors or weapons.