So I guess I also owe the Army a debt of gratitude for giving me so much inspiration and fertile material to work with over the years.
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Uranium-236 is an isotope of uranium that is neither fissile with thermal neutrons, nor very good fertile material, but is generally considered a nuisance and long-lived radioactive waste.
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The large amount of neutrons produced in muon-catalyzed d-t nuclear fusions may be used to breed fissile fuels, from fertile material-for example, thorium-232 could breed uranium-233 in this way.
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Marx's theory of commodity fetishism has proven fertile material for work by other theorists since Marx, who have added to, adapted, or, as Marxist orthodoxy might see it,'vulgarized'the original concept.
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The SFR's fast spectrum also makes it possible to use available fissile and fertile materials ( including depleted uranium ) considerably more efficiently than thermal spectrum reactors with once-through fuel cycles.
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Th-232 is a fertile material that can undergo a neutron capture reaction and two beta minus decays, resulting in the production of fissile activity curve of the SNF around 1 million years.
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Despite winning this competition, Wright felt like an outsider at Punahou School and his experiences at this private institution became fertile material for his coming of age novel " Punahou Blues ".
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Th-232 is a fertile material that can undergo a neutron capture reaction and two beta minus decays, resulting in the production of fissile activity curve of the SNF around 1, 000, 000 years.
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Plutonium-240 is a fertile material like uranium-238, becoming plutonium-241 on neutron capture, but plutonium-242 both has a low neutron capture cross section, and would require 3 neutron captures before becoming a fissile nuclide.
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By surrounding the core with additional fertile material such as natural uranium, or even nuclear waste from other reactors, the breeding reaction will take place in a larger volume and in otherwise useless materials.
