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Fissile isotopes are isotopes of an element that can be split through fission
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What does it mean if a isotope is fissile?
Fissile means that an isotope is capable of supporting a sustained nuclear chain reaction.
What uranium nucleus is fissile?
The isotopes 233U and 235U are fissile with thermal neutrons and the isotope 238U is fissile with fast neutrons.
What is a Radioactive metal from which fissile isotope is removed?
Depleted Uranium
What make Uranium fission?
Uranium (especialy the fissile isotope) 235U is fissionable by bombardments with thermal neutrons.
What the similarities and the differences between the reaction in uranium-235 and the reaction in Thorium?
Uranium-235 is a fissile isotope: can react with thermal neutrons (fission) to sustain a chain reaction.Thorium-232 is a fertile material: can absorb neutrons without fission and is transformed in the fissile isotope U-233.
What does it mean if a isotope is fissile?
Fissile means that an isotope is capable of supporting a sustained nuclear chain reaction.
What does it mean when the isotope is fissile?
"Fissile" means "capable of undergoing fission."
What uranium nucleus is fissile?
The isotopes 233U and 235U are fissile with thermal neutrons and the isotope 238U is fissile with fast neutrons.
What is nuclear uranium?
Uranium-235 is the fissile isotope
What is a Radioactive metal from which fissile isotope is removed?
Depleted Uranium
Which uranium isotope is onley 0.7 percent of natural uranium and is the fissile part?
Uranium 235 is 0.7 percent of natural uranium and is fissile
What is Thorium breeder reacter?
In this type of nuclear reactor the fertile isotope thorium-232 is transformed in the fissile isotope uranium-233 and this act as a nuclear fuel.
What are facts about uranium fission?
The fission energy of the fissile isotope uranium-235 is 1,68.10e8 kJ/mol.
What make Uranium fission?
Uranium (especialy the fissile isotope) 235U is fissionable by bombardments with thermal neutrons.
What the similarities and the differences between the reaction in uranium-235 and the reaction in Thorium?
Uranium-235 is a fissile isotope: can react with thermal neutrons (fission) to sustain a chain reaction.Thorium-232 is a fertile material: can absorb neutrons without fission and is transformed in the fissile isotope U-233.
Is nuclear an atomic fuel?
Fuel used in a nuclear reactor is uranium, the active isotope is uranium 235 which is fissile.
What is nuclear breeding?
This means the breeding of fissile material from non-fissile. Thus for example Pu239 results from irradiating U238 which is not fissile. Thorium can also be used to breed fissile uranium.
