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  • a  not capable of undergoing fission

  • Nearly all the rest ot it is nonfissionable U-238.
  • There are plenty of free neutrons in a pile, but they originate in fissioning atoms of uranium-235 and are normally used to form plutonium (for atom bombs) out of nonfissionable .
  • Later a third nuclear ingredient, fissionable U-233, was made out of nonfissionable thorium.

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