Assertion: heavy water's neutron | /r/CapableOf | absorb neutron
Facets:
value: more strongly
type: DEGREE
value: after two beta decays
type: TEMPORAL
value: into fissile pu-239
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Since fertile U-238 can absorb a neutron and transmute into fissile Pu-239 after two beta decays, the absorbed neutron can also go towards generating new fuel.
text: The neutrons formed by fission come off at high velocity, but U-235 absorbs neutrons much more strongly when they are slowed down, so all so-called thermal reactors use a moderator to slow them down until they achieve the average velocity appropriate to the atoms of the moderator which is at approx 300 deg C in a water reactor.