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• Fissile material
  == Fissile Material == '''Fissile Material''' (/ˈfɪsaɪl/; from Latin ''fissilis'', meaning "able to be spl
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• Fissile material
  == Fissile Material == '''Fissile Material''' (/ˈfɪsaɪl/; from Latin ''fissilis'', meaning "able to be spl
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• Fertile material
  ...[Nuclear Engineering]] to describe substances that can be converted into [[Fissile Material]] through the process of [[Neutron Capture]]. ...or "productive". This is in reference to the material's ability to produce fissile material, which is used as fuel in [[Nuclear Reactors]].
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• Nuclear fuel
  * [[Fissile Material]]: These are materials that are capable of sustaining a nuclear fi ...while not capable of undergoing fission themselves, can be converted into fissile materials by irradiation in a reactor. Examples include uranium-238 and tho
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• Nuclear proliferation
  ...njuː.kliː.ər ˌprəʊ.lɪf.əˈreɪ.ʃən/) is the spread of [[Nuclear weapons]], [[Fissile material]], and [[Weapons of mass destruction|weapons-applicable nuclear te
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• Nuclear chain reaction
  * [[Critical Mass]]: The minimum amount of fissile material needed to maintain a nuclear chain reaction.
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• Critical mass
  ...he field of [[nuclear physics]], where it refers to the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction. It was later adopte
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• Criticality
  * [[Critical Mass]]: The smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction.
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• Helen Caldicott
  * [[Depleted uranium]]: Uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U-235 than natural uranium.
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