User:C.A.T.S. CEO/List of fissile nuclides

This list comprises radioisotopes that are fissionable by neutrons of low kinetic energy. A simple way of distinguishing a 'fissile' nuclide from a 'fissionable' nuclide is that a fissile nuclide (such as uranium-233 or plutonium-239), when bombarded with neutrons, can be used to start off a nuclear chain reaction, producing a nuclear explosion. Most fissionable nuclides (such as uranium-238) fission at much higher energies than fissile materials.

Only isotopes with long enough half-lives to be used in a nuclear weapon or in a thermal reactor are listed.

Uranium

 * Uranium-233
 * Uranium-235

Neptunium

 * Neptunium-236

Plutonium

 * Plutonium-239
 * Plutonium-241

Americium

 * Americium-242m

Curium

 * Curium-243
 * Curium-245
 * Curium-247

Californium

 * Californium-249
 * Californium-251

=See Also=


 * Fissile
 * Uranium
 * Neptunium
 * Plutonium
 * Americium
 * Curium
 * Californium
 * Table of nuclides