How To Use Fissile In A Sentence
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They've done everything but put the fissile core in it.
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An amount of fissile material went missing as a result of the accident.
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Also, in case of an accident during launch, only fresh fissile material would risk dissemination, which is not very radioactive.
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Element 114m has a very high cross-section for thermal neutrons, making it a most potent fissile material.
FLOATING CITY
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It also is the toxic and radioactive byproduct of enriched uranium, the fissile material in nuclear weapons.
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An amount of fissile material went missing as a result of the accident.
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Associated with the earliest ichthyic remains of the Old Red Sandstone, we find vegetable organisms in such abundance, that they communicate often a fissile character to the stone in which they occur.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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An amount of fissile material went missing as a result of the accident.
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Rational Review
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Russia and the United States continue to maintain enormous stockpiles of fissile material.
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Rumors are in the air (apparently from British intelligence) that he has been trying to acquire uranium "yellowcake" -- raw fissile material suitable for bomb-making -- from Niger.
Living Politics: The Plame Game
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Fissile material bred from uranium fuel in reactors can be harvested ( "reprocessed").
Dissident Voice
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Fissile - is: cleft or divided; as the wings in plume-moths: also used for lamellate.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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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.
CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2002
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I found detached on the shore, immediately below this bed, a piece of calcareous fissile sandstone, abounding in small sulcated
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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There are fifteen actinoid (rare earth) elements from which fissile isotopes can be produced; uranium and thorium are the only naturally occurring actinoids.
Dissident Voice
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The shales are conspicuously fissile throughout the section and, along with the associated carbonates, tend to become increasingly red-colored toward the top of the member.
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An amount of fissile material went missing as a result of the accident.
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Especially the part of their nuclear program that was dedicated to enrichment, to producing the highly enriched uranium needed for the fissile core of a nuclear device.
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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.
Scientific American
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The acquisition of the fissile material is the single biggest ingredient in having a weapon.
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They are composed chiefly of greenish-colored fissile sandstones and calciferous grits, in which we meet a few fossils, very imperfectly preserved.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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The oil shales are very fissile, non-laminated, dark brown to black and have a bituminous smell, whereas the less carbonaceous beds are weakly fissile.
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The major limiting step is acquisition of the fissile material either enriched uranium or plutonium.
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This enables to use betatrons for control of large-size luggage on presence of fissile materials.
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Uranium 238 is not fissile; it is called "fissionable" because it sometimes splits when hit by a fast neutron.
Scientific American
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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.
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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
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The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
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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.
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Smuggling can potentially provide fissile material for nuclear weapons or a wider range of radioactive materials for use in ‘dirty bombs’.
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Element 114m has a very high cross-section for thermal neutrons, making it a most potent fissile material.
FLOATING CITY
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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
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No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissile uranium has now decayed below that needed for a sustainable reaction.
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It resumed the production, and testing of uranium enrichment centrifuges that can make fissile material for nuclear reactors or weapons.
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If he has to develop fissile materials himself, like enriched uranium, they estimate it takes five to seven years to do that through the gas centrifuge process.
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If they acquire sufficient weapons-grade fissile material from abroad, they could make a nuclear weapon within a year.
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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.
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The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
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fissile crystals
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For example, fissile slates tend to yield much flatter particles than massive granites.
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Which is a bit like me admitting that I could make a nuclear weapon within a year if I acquired weapons-grade fissile material - that is rather the point.
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They maintain that the fissile cores are stored separately from the non-nuclear explosives packages, and that the warheads are stored separately from the delivery systems.
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This horizon, up to 1.3 m thick, is a black, highly fissile shale.
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fissile wood
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Isotopes of uranium and plutonium which fission in a fast neutron environment are said to be "fissionable", as distinct from fissile.
Plutonium
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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.
How to Get a Nuclear Bomb
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As a general rule, however, the biggest hurdle for a would-be nuclear power is the acquisition of fissile material - enriched uranium or plutonium.
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As a general rule, however, the biggest hurdle for a would-be nuclear power is the acquisition of fissile material - enriched uranium or plutonium.
