Assertion: uranium's nucleus | /r/CapableOf | absorb the neutron
Facets:
value: merely
type: MANNER
value: to produce the radioactive isotope
type: PURPOSE
value: nearly always
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The nucleus of a U-238 atom on the other hand, rather than undergoing fission when struck by a free neutron, will nearly always absorb the neutron and yield an atom of the isotope U-239.
text: If this fertile material is loaded in the nuclear reactor, the nuclei of 232Th absorb a neutron and become nuclei of 233Th.
text: Indeed, the 238U nucleus can absorb one neutron to produce the radioactive isotope uranium-239.
text: If no additional energy is supplied by any other mechanism, the nucleus will not fission, but will merely absorb the neutron, as happens when U-238 absorbs slow and even some fraction of fast neutrons, to become U-239.