Sentences with phrase «more fissile»
While fast reactors are up to 200x more resource efficient, they require 3x or more fissile atoms to start up initially.
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Fast reactors with an elegant ability to «breed» more fissile materials than they consumed in fuel, seemed destined to play a major part in helping the world to solve its energy needs.
Not exact matches
«The highly unpredictable and aggressive regime in North Korea recently conducted its third nuclear test and could already have enough fissile material to produce more than a dozen nuclear weapons,» he wrote in the Telegraph.
In nature, uranium occurs as a mixture of two isotopes, the easily fissionable uranium 235 (which is said to be «fissile») and the much more stable uranium 238.
In addition, nuclear engineers have uncovered ways to coax more heat out of fissile uranium fuel before it inevitably fizzles out.
Some scientists have argued that thorium, a more abundant element that can be bombarded with neutrons to produce the fissile fuel isotope uranium233, could become the nuclear fuel of the future.
Nuclear has in fact started in the USA, although the raison d'etre was more connected to collecting enough fissile material for their military requirements rather than civil power generation.