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To: LibWhacker

"natural uranium will not undergo nuclear reactions, because it contains too little of the fissionable isotope, uranium-235 (U235)."

U-238 is also fissionable. U-235 is fissile, however, which means a neutron with no additional velocity will cause it to fission.


45 posted on 11/23/2004 7:06:30 PM PST by Flightdeck (Gravity and EM are the same thing)
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To: Flightdeck
U-238 is also fissionable. U-235 is fissile, however, which means a neutron with no additional velocity will cause it to fission.

Close. Fissile materials will undergo fission with any velocity neutron.

48 posted on 11/23/2004 8:05:41 PM PST by WildTurkey
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