Assertion: plutonium | /r/HasProperty | a fissile isotope
Facets:
value: in modern nuclear weapons
type: LOCATION
value: by thermal neutrons
type: OTHER
value: like uranium-235
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Plutonium 239 is a fissile isotope and its fission cross-section for thermal neutrons is about 750 barns (for 0.025 eV neutron).
text: Plutonium is a key fissile component in modern nuclear weapons; care must be taken to avoid accumulation of amounts of plutonium which approach critical mass, the amount of plutonium which will self-generate a nuclear reaction.
text: Further work found that the far more common uranium-238 isotope can be transmuted into plutonium, which, like uranium-235, is also fissile by thermal neutrons.
text: The barium was present in the form of the nitrate in the chemical explosives used while the plutonium was the fissile fuel used.
text: Plutonium 239 is a fissile isotope and its fission cross-section for thermal neutrons is about 750 barns (for 0.025 eV neutron).
text: Plutonium is the key fissile component in modern nuclear weapons, and it could also be used to manufacture radiological weapons or as a (not particularly deadly) poison.