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- adjective not fissile. Opposite of
fissile .
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- adjective not fissile
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Examples
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We might push that to ~1000 years with breeding (extracting plutonium produced from the nonfissile and abundant isotope of uranium).
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As it runs, the core in a traveling-wave reactor gradually converts nonfissile material into the fuel it needs.
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