neutron bombardment

It is radioactive and created from common sodium-23 by neutron bombardment.

Cobalt-60, for example does not occur naturally and can only be produced through neutron bombardment of cobalt-59.

P is made in relatively low yield by neutron bombardment of P.

Train a laser beam at systemic risks to effect neutron bombardment.

A different model called the displacement spike was proposed for fast neutron bombardment of heavy elements.

Neutron bombardment could not be used for screening airline passengers because of the radiation hazards involved.

According to an engineer's report, the welds have been made brittle as a result of neutron bombardment.

Nuclear fission can occur without neutron bombardment as a type of radioactive decay.

Amazingly, I discover that my hull is extremely radioactive, the result of an intense neutron bombardment.

Admittedly the Pu239 was made by transmuting U238 via neutron bombardment.

Neutron bombardment begins to cause vertical expansion of the graphite core, enough to mean structural damage by 1995.

Neutron bombardment is important in chain reactions.

Thorium will on neutron bombardment form uranium-233.

Uranium-233 is made from thorium-232 by neutron bombardment, usually in a nuclear reactor, and U is also fissile.

The combination of heat, pressure, and neutron bombardment causes the lithium to fission into tritium.

Under neutron bombardment, sodium-24 is produced.

It was clear to scientists at Columbia that they should try to detect the energy released in the nuclear fission of uranium from neutron bombardment.

A related problem for a future commercial fusion power plant is that the neutron bombardment will induce radioactivity in the reactor material itself.

The second isotope Am was produced upon neutron bombardment of the already-created Am.

Neutron bombardment would make elements like silicon and calcium in the rocks and clay become intensely radioactive.

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) demonstrated that nuclear transformation occurs in almost every element subjected to neutron bombardment.

Gold was synthesized from mercury by neutron bombardment in 1941, but the isotopes of gold produced were all radioactive.

While nuclear reactors are usually in sturdy housings, it was not immediately realized that long-term neutron bombardment can embrittle steel.

If the neutron bombardment were to reach the metal wall of a reactor's vacuum chamber, the entire chamber could collapse, destroying the reactor.

Professor Calculus is kidnapped to help Zalamea perfect the blue oranges which with neutron bombardment can mature in just five days.