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".
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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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.
Source: Achievements in Ignorance -
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.
Source: Insufficiently Advanced Alien -
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.
Source: Series / MacGyver (2016)
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