Sentences with phrase «called nuclear fission»

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Meitner and Frisch were able to provide an explanation for what he saw that would revolutionize the field of nuclear physics: A uranium nucleus could split in half — or fission, as they called it — producing two new nuclei, called fission fragments.

Elements in this so - called island of stability could act as powerful nuclear fuel for future fission - propelled space missions.

Take a look at these two graphs showing the probability (called the cross-section in nuclear lingo) of capture and the probability of fission as a function of neutron energy for U-235 and U-238.

While nuclear energy is regarded as the lesser of the two evils when compared at an emission level to the burning of fossil - fuels, it may trump on the containment of the heat process, which burns in a contained nuclear reactor through an in - ward heat - chemical reaction called fission, but nuclear energy production is a chain from uranium mining to the toxic waste disposal and therefore as an entire process is an equally high risk environmental option.

Deep in the psyche of these over 50s men, other than those like me who have resisted the nuclear siren's call, there is a non-rational belief in the endless safe power of nuclear fission and delusions of fusion.

We already have a way of producing energy in the amounts we need without CO2 emissions — it's called «nuclear fission».