"fuel" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Initially, the core is loaded with fertile material, with a few rods of fissile fuel concentrated in the central region.
- Once the vortex develops, fissile fuel can be injected through the semi-porous plate to bring the reactor critical.
- The problem isn't exactly that the fissile fuel gets depleted, as that the process of radioactive decay damages the material.
- Examples of fissile fuels are U-233, U-235 and Pu-239.
- Such thermal reactors require much less of the expensive fissile fuel to start and have a slow, gentle response in power changes.
- One can place the fertile and fissile fuel together, so breeding and splitting occurs in the same place.
- Some fission products in the salt absorb neutrons and reduce the production of new fissile fuel.
- The chemical separation for the 2-fluid designs, using uranium as a fissile fuel can work with these two relatively simple processes:
- The most common fissile nuclear fuels are uranium-235 (U) and plutonium-239 (Pu).
- Nuclear fission weapons require a mass of fissile fuel that is prompt supercritical.
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