"' Uranium-238 "'( "'238 U "'or "'U-238 "') is the most common capture a slow neutron and after two beta decays become fissile plutonium-239.238 U is fissionable by fast neutrons, and cannot support a chain reaction because inelastic scattering reduces neutron energy below the range where fast fission of one or more next-generation nuclei is probable.
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The project gets its name from the processing of uranium at Hanford, WA in an open loop / water cooled nuclear reactor for the sole purpose of irradiating the Uranium-238 producing the fissile Plutonium-239 . Due to other unwanted highly radioactive decay products being formed, normal batch processing would take place 83 to 101 days after reactor extraction to allow the radioactive isotopes to decay before extracting the fissile Plutonium-239 in a safe manner for the 30, 000 nuclear weapons amassed and now MOX fuel during the cold war by the United States.
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The project gets its name from the processing of uranium at Hanford, WA in an open loop / water cooled nuclear reactor for the sole purpose of irradiating the Uranium-238 producing the fissile Plutonium-239 . Due to other unwanted highly radioactive decay products being formed, normal batch processing would take place 83 to 101 days after reactor extraction to allow the radioactive isotopes to decay before extracting the fissile Plutonium-239 in a safe manner for the 30, 000 nuclear weapons amassed and now MOX fuel during the cold war by the United States.
