Fissionable and Nuclear

Fissionable

Fissionable adjective - Capable of undergoing nuclear fission.
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Nuclear and fissionable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nuclear" instead an adjective "Fissionable".

Nearby Words: fission, fissile, fissioning, fissioned

Nuclear

Nuclear adjective - Constituting or like a nucleus.

Fissionable and nuclear are semantically related. You can use "Fissionable" instead an adjective "Nuclear".

Nearby Words: nucleus, nuclearization

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  • Achievements in Ignorance Homer Simpson achieved an Epic Fail so massive that he managed to cause an actual nuclear meltdown in a nuclear plant simulation truck with no fissionable materials.
  • Insufficiently Advanced Alien The latter can, at least, be justified by the lack of large supplies of fissionable material on their homeworld, meaning the idea of nuclear chain reactions never came to them.
  • Series / MacGyver (2016) The "depleted" part of depleted uranium specifically means that it's had the fissionable material that makes uranium suitable for use in a nuclear fission device removed.
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