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nonfissile

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adj.1.not fissile. Opposite of fissile.
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Adj.1.nonfissile - not fissile
fissile - capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood"


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[8] If breeder reactors become practical they will be able to make plutonium from nonfissile uranium and fissile uranium from thorium, which is three times as plentiful as uranium.
But, nonfissile radioactive materials dispersed by conventional explosive or even released accidentally could cause damage to property and the environment, and cause social, political, and economic disruption.
It does this by transforming nonfissile uranium-238--the most prevalent natural form of uranium -- into fissionable plutonium.
 
 
 
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