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Fissionable Materials

Mean a nuclide capable of sustaining a neutron-induced fission chain reaction. These nuclides are uranium-233, uranium-235, plutonium-238, plutonium-239, plutonium-241, neptunium-237, americium-241, and curium-244.
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