It has significant thermal neutron cross section for fission, but is more likely to capture a neutron and become Pu-239.
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Pu-241 has a half-life of 14 years, and has slightly higher thermal neutron cross sections than Pu-239 for both fission and absorption.
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An isotope ( or nuclide ) can be classified according to its neutron cross section and how it reacts to an incident neutron.
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The article cross-section only gives info about light absorption cross-sections and neutron cross sections . talk ) 12 : 12, 14 November 2012 ( UTC)
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The neutron cross section of graphite was also investigated during the second world war in Germany by Walter Bothe, P . Jensen, and Werner Heisenberg.
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Circa 1942, Stetter led a group of six physicists and physical chemists in measuring atomic constants and neutron cross sections, as well as investigating transuranic elements.
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After working through the numbers with slide rules and hand calculators, they determined the Neutron cross section of the poison, which turned out to be xenon-135.
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In December 1940, Bacher joined the Radiation Laboratory at MIT, although he did not immediately cease his research at Cornell into the neutron cross section of cadmium.
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A number of other experiments were performed at the reactor, including investigation of the feasibility of civilian breeder reactors, and measuring neutron cross sections of various materials.
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It is for this reason that, despite its low critical mass and high neutron cross section, it has not been researched as a nuclear fuel in weapons or reactors.
