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How To Use fissionable In A Sentence

• fissionable" is generally used in an engineering sense for those elements that undergo fission when struck by neutrons. Dissident Voice
• In addition, some of Commander Douvrin's intelligence people had discovered that the only source of fissionables and radioactives for the planet was a complex of uranite mines, separation plants, refineries and reaction-plants on the smaller of Aditya's two continents, Austragonia. A Slave is a Slave
• Nuclear weapons depend on conventional explosives to squeeze the fissionable material together so it reaches the critical mass needed for an atomic explosion.
• An atomic bomb uses conventional explosives to slam together two lumps of fissionable material, usually uranium-235 or plutonium-239.
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• If we use more nuclear power (either because we are forced to, or in pursuit of lower CO2 emissions), we could do this for about 100 years using current nuclear reactors, before fissionable uranium runs out.
• It is only the atoms of mass 235 which are fissionable, that is, from which energy is released. The Peacetime Applications of Atomic Energy
• Uranium 238 is not fissile; it is called "fissionable" because it sometimes splits when hit by a fast neutron. Scientific American
• The words ` fissionable material ', `critical mass ', `chain reaction' and `atomic pile' were not mysterious concepts. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
• Critical mass is the minimum mass of fissionable material required to sustain a nuclear fission reaction.