fissionable

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Such a big presence would be needed to secure and remove WMD any materials with "enough fissionable plutonium and uranium by build up to 75 weapons by 2020," the report said.

From Fox News

Any such claim should be “objectively” true, relating to weapons, war, fissionable nuclear materials or an “emergency in international relations”, according to the ruling.

From Reuters

Meanwhile, the National Nuclear Security Administration and Department of Defense have floated the idea of converting surplus weapons-grade plutonium at SRS into “pits” - the fissionable core of bombs.

From Washington Times

But inventions that would be useful only in the production of fissionable material, or when using such material or atomic energy in a military weapon, were non-patentable.

From Nature

The Idaho reactor, located at the 890-square-mile Idaho National Laboratory, was designed to produce electricity while it “breeds” new fuel by allowing fast-moving neutrons to convert non-fissionable uranium into fissionable plutonium.

From Los Angeles Times