fertile material

Taken together, they offer fertile material for interpretive analysis.

Uranium-234 (which is fertile material but can affect reactivity differently than uranium-238).

The sensation novels of the 1860s and 1870s were fertile material for melodramatic adaptations.

I question if he doesn't worry that he has lost touch with the streets, and therefore his most fertile material. '

During operation the reactor breeds more fissile material from fertile material.

Burrowing animals mix the new fertile materials with the soil to form a rich rooting compound.

Breeding designs surround the core by a breeding blanket of fertile material.

Fertile materials are also nonrenewable, but their supply on Earth is extremely large, so the situation is similar to geothermal power.

These fissile and fertile materials can be chemically separated and recovered from the spent fuel.

Thorium is fertile material, and essentially all thorium can be used in a nuclear reactor.

Similar to uranium-fueled designs, the longer the fuel and fertile material remain in the reactor, the more of these undesirable elements build up.

Initially, the core is loaded with fertile material, with a few rods of fissile fuel concentrated in the central region.

The Tolstoy marriage - obsessively documented by both partners - offers fertile material for any biographer industrious enough to read his way through it.

The energy-generating fission zone steadily advances through the core, effectively consuming fertile material in front of it and leaving spent fuel behind.

Naturally-occurring fertile materials that can be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor include:

Th-232 is a fertile material that can undergo a neutron capture reaction and two beta minus decays, resulting in the production of fissile U-233.

It was envisioned that as uranium reserves were depleted, thorium would supplement uranium as a fertile material.

However, it is possible to build a fast reactor that will breed fuel (from fertile material) by producing more fissile material than it consumes.

Furthermore, he noted, the sediment and soil-matter is composed of the most fertile material of the fields and pastures drained by the tributaries.

Such reactors would constantly replenish the available supply of nuclear fuel by converting fertile materials, such as uranium-238 and thorium, into plutonium or uranium-233, respectively.

Agencies relish religious work precisely because of the strong emotions connected with the subject; religion, after all, is far more fertile material for creativeadvertising than soap or cereal.

As long as there is any amount of a fertile material within the neutron flux of the reactor, some new fissile material is always created.

It is not fissile, but is a fertile material: it can capture a slow neutron and after two beta decays become fissile plutonium-239.

Proposed applications for fertile material includes a space-based facility for the manufacture of fissile material for spacecraft nuclear propulsion.

One additional species S. hainanensis awaits confirmation of its difference from S. palustris by means of differences in fertile material and/or its formal publication.