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Fertile material
Fertile material is a term used to describe nuclides which generally themselves do not undergo induced fission (fissionable by thermal neutrons) but from which fissile material is generated by neutron absorption and subsequent nuclei conversions. Fertile materials that occur naturally which can be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor include: thorium-232 which can be converted into fissionable uranium-233, uranium-234 which is converted into uranium-235 and uranium-238 which can be converted into fissionable plutonium-239.
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