Sentences with phrase «uranium absorbs a neutron»

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The idea was to increase the neutrons» chances of being absorbed by another uranium nucleus.

It is also said to be «fertile,» because when a uranium 238 atom absorbs a neutron without splitting, it transmutes into plutonium 239, which, like uranium 235, is fissile and can sustain a chain reaction.

In nuclides such as Uranium - 238, thermal neutrons are readily absorbed without causing a fission — resulting in what we call a capture.

Around the core is uranium that will absorb neutrons and breed plutonium Heats up sodium that transfers heat to a second sodium loop that then heats up water to make steam Can produce 20 % more fuel than it uses.

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Uranium 235 will only absorb thermal (slow) neutrons requiring a moderator to slow the neutrons down by colliding with them.

Thorium is better because it has to absorb five neutrons before it will turn into a transuranic isotope, whereas common uranium only has to absorb one - a built in buffer.