Fissile
geology other uses fission In nuclear engineering , a fissile material is one that is capable of sustaining a chain reaction of nuclear fission . All known fissile materials are capable of sustaining ..
Denaturation (fissile materials)
Unreferenced date September 2007 Denaturation of fissile materials suitable for nuclear weapon s is the process of transforming them into a form that is not suitable for weapons use and can not easily ..
Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty
The Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty also FISSBAN or FMCT is a proposed international treaty to prohibit ... of fissile materials for nuclear explosives or outside international safeguards. In December ..
Fissility
Fissility may refer to Fissility geology , a property of shales Fissile Fissility physics , referring to a nuclear process disambig ..
Reactimeter
Orphan date November 2006 A reactimeter is a diagnostic device used in nuclear power plants and other nuclear applications for measuring the reactivity of fissile materials as they approach criticalit ...
Denaturation
Denaturation may refer to Denaturation biochemistry a structural change in macromolecules caused by extreme conditions Denaturation fissile materials transforming fissile materials so that they cannot ...
Nuclear criticality safety
occurs from operations that involve fissile material and results in a tremendous and potentially lethal ... of a nuclear criticality accident by analyzing normal and abnormal fissile material operations ..
Insertion time
mass of fissile material into a critical mass . This is one of the three main requirements in a nuclear ... of a neutron in the fissile material through spontaneous fission or by other random processes. Also ..
Fertile (disambiguation)
induced fission, but from which fissile material can be generated Fertile, Iowa , a small ..
Mark 10 nuclear bomb
critical mass es of fissile nuclear material by firing a fissile projectile or bullet into a hollow opening in a larger fissile target , using a system which closely resembles a medium sized cannon ..
Fertile material
do not undergo induced Nuclear fission fission fissionable by thermal neutrons but from which fissile ... that occur naturally which can be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor ..
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
mode of enrichment was the gaseous diffusion of Uranium hexaflouride to separate the lighter fissile isotope, U 235, from the heavier non fissile isotope, U 238. Operations at the Piketon plant ceased ..
Traveling wave reactor
raw fertile radioactive material into fissile material whose atoms are then more easily split ... John title Novel Reactor Designs To Burn Non Fissile Fuels publisher International Congress on Advances ..
Mark 8 nuclear bomb
, which rapidly assembles several critical mass es of fissile nuclear material by firing a fissile projectile or bullet into a hollow opening in a larger fissile target , using a system which closely ..
Neptunium-236
of neptunium has a mass of 236.04657 grams mole. It is a fissile material with a critical mass of 7 ..
List of UN Numbers 3301 to 3400
material , low specific activity material LSA II , non fissile or fissile excepted UN 3322 ? Radioactive material, low specific activity material LSA III , non fissile or fissile excepted UN ..
Mark 18 nuclear bomb
Plutonium fissile core was replaced with over 60 kg of pure HEU Highly Enriched Uranium or HEU. With a natural Uranium tamper layer, the bomb had over four critical mass es of fissile material ..
Breeder (disambiguation)
, a type of fast neutron reactor that produces more fissile material than it consumes Breeder game ..
Pool Test Reactor
type fuel. The reactor, was used for burnup measurement of fissile samples from NRX . The reactor was designed ..
Uranium metallurgy
s. It is the only isotope existing in nature to any appreciable extent that is fissile, that is, fissionable ... , which also is fissile. Uranium in its natural state comprises just 0.71 sup 235 sup U and 99.3 ..
Mark 5 nuclear bomb
Plutonium fissile material core or pit . The Mark 5 core and W5 warhead were 39 inches in diameter and 76 ... early US nuclear weapon designs, the fissile material or pit could be kept separately from ..
Nuclear weapons convention
the fissile material under UN control. As well as outlawing nuclear weapons, the convention would prohibit the production of fissile materials suitable for making them, namely highly enriched ..
Uranium-235
chain reaction , i.e., it is fissile . It is the only fissile isotope found in any economic quantity ... applications require unique levels of enrichment. The fissile uranium in nuclear weapon s usually ..
Nuclear chain reaction
Fission chain reaction Fission chain reactions occur because of interactions between neutrons and fissile ... fissile isotopes undergoing nuclear fission and the subsequent absorption of some of these neutrons ..
Nuclear reactor core
out of the way, more neutrons strike the fissile uranium 235 U 235 or plutonium 239 Pu 239 nuclei ... reactions. An alternative form of nuclear fuel would be fissile uranium 233 U 233 made by the neutron ..
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