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fissile
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fissile
1. Brit capable of undergoing nuclear fission as a result of the impact of slow neutrons
2. US and Canadian capable of undergoing nuclear fission as a result of any process

fissile [′fisĀ·əl]
(geology)
Capable of being split along the line of the grain or cleavage plane.
(nucleonics)


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This was a positive step but not yet an indication that India is prepared to use its influence in a sustained and determined way to get Iran to abandon its plans for an enrichment facility capable of producing both fuel for civil nuclear reactors and fissile material for nuclear bombs.
for the conclusion of a multilateral Fissile Material Cut Off Treaty (FMCT) to halt production of fissile material for nuclear weapons;
Despite obligations to do otherwise, the United States has failed to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, opposed a verifiable Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty, scrapped the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, and substituted the fully reversible Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START).
 
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