What is "fissionable"

Usage examples of "fissionable".

Yat-Zar on every time-line of the Proto-Aryan Sector, for the worship of Yat-Zar was ancient among the Hulgun people of that area of paratime, but there were only a few which had such installations as this, and all of them were owned and operated by Transtemporal Mining, which had the fissionable ores franchise for this sector.

The right kind of fissionable material, introduced within the Tokamak chamber while it was operating, could have undergone a chain-reaction by bombardment with neutrons.

That was the big pay-off, the triadic bonus, which came as surely as the energy bounty obtained by adding that last pellet of fissionable material.

Dead Sea, they found the sulphur extraction plant, a town-sized site encompassing hundreds of square miles of piping, chemical tanks, mineral silos, transport vehicles, all visible, and a nuclear reactor with a fissionable center under twenty feet of prestressed, reinforced concrete, buried invisibly deep beneath the desert sand.

They consisted of assembling two subcritical masses of fissionable enriched uranium.

Once that protection was gone, no material substance in the universe could keep the half-ton of fissionable isotopes forming their cargoes at subcritical separation.

It contains a nuclear bomb in the base, using a fissionable transuranic of small critical mass.

That law establishes an Atomic Energy Commission of five members which is empowered to conduct through its own facilities, or by contracts with, or loans to private persons, research and developmental activity relating to nuclear processes, the theory and production of atomic energy and the utilization of fissionable and radioactive materials for medical, industrial and other purposes.

The flow of fissionables from the asteroids in turn reduces the cost of transport much cruder methods.

Some of these were easily converted into fissionable uranium 235, and thorium 232 itself was an enormously valuable breeder material for an atomic pile.

The new insulators can hold a gun magazine at one degree Kelvin for weeks, and carry enough fissionable pellets to give rapid fire, with the effect of a steady beam, for more than a minute.

The device contained no fissionables it wouldn't have been detected by any kind of a scintillation counter, only the kind of X ray or muon scanner that no one would put a valuable bird through.

Secret Service agents and sniffer dogs combed the kitchen for fissionable material and hidden weapons.