fissionable

adjective

fis·sion·able ˈfi-shə-nə-bəl

-zhə-;

ˈfish-nə-,

ˈfizh-

: fissile sense 2

fissionability

ˌfi-shə-nə-ˈbi-lə-tē

-zhə-;

ˌfish-nə-

ˌfizh-

noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The most important step was separating the fissionable material from the conventional high explosives that trigger the nuclear reaction. —

Phil Hoover, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2012 The optimum would be to toss into the stream of discussion an AI outlier comment that would get everyone to go full-on fissionable red hot. —

Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022 Eisenhower proposed that governments make contributions from their stockpiles of uranium and fissionable materials to an international atomic-energy agency. —

Rebecca Tuhus-dubrow, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2021 Other fissionable atoms, Pu-239 for example, produce different suites of fission products. —

Andrew Karam, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2016 A criticality accident is an uncontrolled chain reaction involving a fissionable material like plutonium that releases energy and generates a deadly burst of radiation. —

Patrick Malone And R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post, 18 June 2017 After being sent to the weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Fuchs spent his time devising a method of imploding the fissionable core of the plutonium bomb. —

Tony Long, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2011 See More

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