Sentences with phrase «fissile products»
Thorium plants are also subject to explosions of their own: where in - line, high temperature and pressure «reprocessing» produces highly toxic radioactive fissile products.
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Fallout is a mélange of the vaporized environment — soil and structures that were near the blast — laced with fission products (radioisotopes created when fissile materials like uranium or plutonium fission), activation products (radioisotopes formed when the blast radiation transmutes shielding and other bomb components), and residual nuclear material.