After that a small fraction of the thorium then transmutes into a fissionable material—uranium 233—that does undergo fission and can therefore be used in a reactor or bomb. By the early 1960’s, the US ...

Thorium-232, the only naturally occurring isotope of thorium, is a fissionable material but not a fissile one, meaning that it needs high-energy neutrons to undergo fission — the splitting of atomic ...

Detailed price information for Nuscale Power Corp (SMR-N) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.

A breeder reactor, like the one scientists in Idaho were trying to build, converts uranium-238’s “nonfissionable material into fissionable material more rapidly than the nuclear fuel is ...

An Ann Arbor engineering company is working on a device to scan for smuggled "fissionable materials" at border checkpoints and is getting a $750,000 government contract for the project.