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...fuel]] removed from [[light water reactor]]s, or some combination of these materials. The concept is still in the development stage and no TWRs have ever been b ...diation damage has been shown to be an obstacle to the use of conventional materials in wave reactors, but in 2012 it was shown that fuel enrichment can be used ...

...], a '''tamper''' is an optional layer of dense material surrounding the [[fissile material]]. It is used in [[nuclear weapon design]] to reduce the [[critica ...quickly to be used in compressing the secondary stage. More exotic tamper materials such as [[gold]] are used for special purposes like emitting large amounts ...

...e-type centrifuge''' is a [[gas centrifuge]] designed to enrich the rare [[fissile isotope]] [[uranium-235]] (²³⁵U) from the mixture of isotopes fo ...[[Uranium-238|U-238]], while approximately 0.72% is [[Uranium-235|U-235]], fissile by thermal neutrons, and the remaining 0.0055% is [[Uranium-234|U-234]]. If ...

...reactor operates in the projected temperature interval that depends on the materials used in the construction of the reactor. The effectiveness of removal of he ...eat generated per volume unit is proportional to the fraction of nuclear [[Fissile material|fissionable fuel]] burned in the unit of time: ...

...|241}}Cm, and [[alpha decay|α]] from {{sup|245}}Bk. {{sup|241}}Am is not [[fissile]], but is [[fissionable]], and the [[critical mass]] of a bare sphere is {{ ...ns from {{sup|241}}Am in such sources can be used for indirect analysis of materials in [[radiography]] and [[X-ray fluorescence]] spectroscopy, as well as for ...

...s there exist four even-odd nuclides (see table at right), including the [[fissile]] {{nuclide|Uranium|235|link=yes}}. Because of their odd neutron numbers, t [[Actinide]]s with odd neutron number are generally [[fissile]] (with [[thermal neutron]]s), whereas those with even neutron number are g ...

...]] that happens in a nuclear reactor), and also when [[fissionable]] and [[fissile]] [[actinide]]s nuclides (i.e., heavy atoms capable of fission) undergo [[s ...use of their charge and large mass, alpha particles are easily absorbed by materials, and they can travel only a few centimetres in air. They can be absorbed by ...

...smic Ray Muon Momentum Measurement for Monitoring Shielded Special Nuclear Materials |year=2021 |book-title=Proceedings of the INMM & ESARDA Joint Virtual Annua ...ic-ray radiography: a case study of a temple gate as a test piece |journal=Materials Evaluation |volume=46 |issue=11 |year=1988 |pages=1468–1470}}</ref> used co ...

...ics]], its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including [[mechanics]], [[materials science]], [[nuclear physics]], [[particle physics]], and [[thermodynamics] ...to [[bending|bend]].<ref>Gere, J.M.; Timoshenko, S.P. (1996), Mechanics of Materials:Forth edition, Nelson Engineering, {{ISBN|0534934293}}</ref><ref>Beer, F.; ...