Sentences with phrase «for nuclear fission»

Electricity generation emerged as the best civilian application for nuclear fission.

Krakowski and Wilson (chapter 7) give an amazingly thorough review of the situation for nuclear fission energy.

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Meitner's work in elucidating the process of nuclear fission in 1938 is well accepted by her fellow physicists — but Otto Hahn, who won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry «for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei,» barely acknowledged her contribution.

The nuclear power plants in use around the world today use fission, or the splitting of heavy atoms such as uranium, to release energy for electricity.

If i did nt know what nuclear fission was and had no explanation for it, i could come up with all kinds of excuses to prove to other ignorant people why that mushroom cloud over their was GOD.

He believes that uranium may have settled into the core — enough to sustain nuclear fission — and that the resulting reactor is the energy source for the geomagnetic field.

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.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES) conducts research into novel nuclear fission fuels and technoNuclear Energy Systems (CANES) conducts research into novel nuclear fission fuels and technonuclear fission fuels and technologies.

This is especially important for formulating fusion and new kinds of fission nuclear power plants.

The fusion of two nuclei lighter than iron or nickel generally releases energy while the fusion of nuclei heavier than iron or nickel absorbs energy; vice-versa for the reverse process, nuclear fission.

Karl was a research assistant for Harold Urey in 1938 when news of the reality of nuclear fission arrived.

Physicist Lise Meitner, who made the calculations that led to the discovery of nuclear fission, was reportedly nominated for the Nobel Prize 13 times but never won it.

For one thing, there's a chance that enough plutonium could congregate to trigger a nuclear chain reaction, or criticality — the self - sustaining cascade of atomic fission that releases massive amounts of energy.

Funding for the nuclear R&D sector is much lower than many international competitors and negligible for research into future generations of fission reactors.»

Indeed, he has evidence: the speediest drop in greenhouse gas pollution on record occurred in France in the 1970s and «80s, when that country transitioned from burning fossil fuels to nuclear fission for electricity, lowering its greenhouse emissions by roughly 2 percent per year.

And that means there may be two direct paths for radioactive particle byproducts of nuclear fission, such as cesium 137 and iodine 131, to escape and spread radiation — cracks in containment as well as the spent fuel pools now open to the air.

Other EPSRC - funded programmes and consortia include the Fusion Programme, the «Keeping the Nuclear Option Open» programme (nuclear fission), the UK Energy Research Centre, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Carbon Vision Buildings Project, and Building Knowledge for a Changing CNuclear Option Open» programme (nuclear fission), the UK Energy Research Centre, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Carbon Vision Buildings Project, and Building Knowledge for a Changing Cnuclear fission), the UK Energy Research Centre, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Carbon Vision Buildings Project, and Building Knowledge for a Changing Climate.

Such nuclear reactors can actually «consume» plutonium via fission (transforming it into other forms of nuclear waste that are not as useful for weapons).

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

For example, the treaty forbids igniting devices based on nuclear fission; Küntzel draws attention to how, just a few weeks after West Germany signed the treaty, a working paper published by the Science and Politics Foundation in Ebenhausen emphasised that research into detonating H - bombs with a laser beam was permitted by the treaty, and should be encouraged.

American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon — usable materials than nuclear fission reactors and their associated fuel cycle.

The last time NASA tested a fission reactor was during the 1960s» Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power, or SNAP, program, which developed two types of nuclear power sNuclear Auxiliary Power, or SNAP, program, which developed two types of nuclear power snuclear power systems.

To reduce the demand for storage space, a sustainable nuclear fuel cycle would separate the short - lived, high - heat - producing fission products, particularly cesium 137 and strontium 90.

Natural nuclear fission reactors may provide reasonable explanations for other «NASA mysteries» including: (1) Our Moon having a soft or molten core; (2) Tiny planet Mercury having a magnetic field; (3) Mars displaying evidence of an ancient magnetic field; (4) Our Moon displaying evidence of an ancient magnetic field; (5) Jupiter's moon Ganymede having an internally generated magnetic field; (6) Jupiter's moon Io being extremely volcanic; (7) Saturn's moon Enceladus showing evidence of internal heating; and, (8) Evidence of internal heat generation in Pluto's moon Charon:

We produce neutrons by nuclear fission for use in research.

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.

Brian Wirth, UT - ORNL Governor's Chair for Computational Nuclear Engineering, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «advancing knowledge of radiation damage mechanisms and fuel performance in fission and fusion energy via multiscale modeling using high performance computing validated by experiments.»

He leads the Fuel Material and Chemistry Focus Area of the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, as well as Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) projects on plasma surface interactions and fission gas behavior in nuclear fuel.

To illustrate chain reactions in nuclear fission, a table filled with mousetraps represents the atoms and pingpong balls stand in for the new neutrons created from the split.

The exhibits offer interactive modules for learning about prominent physicists such as Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and important research such as the discovery of the electron, global warming, and nuclear fission.

It works in consortiums to manage nuclear fission related sites for the U.S. Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administnuclear fission related sites for the U.S. Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security AdministNuclear Security Administration.

Moore's piece was commissioned to commemorate the first successful nuclear fission, which took place on campus in 1941 and we now know it as the birthplace for the Manhattan Project.

As here, refuting Jon Kirwan's concern (# 150): «the speediest drop in greenhouse gas pollution on record occurred in France in the 1970s and «80s, when that country transitioned from burning fossil fuels to nuclear fission for electricity, lowering its greenhouse emissions by roughly 2 percent per year.»

We both talked about how nuclear power especially Thorium - based nuclear power could be a solution for future power needs that would provide a stable base electrical grid while at the same time having far fewer problems than the current fission products based on uranium and plutonium.

In this case, you're getting something (a higher energy state carbon) for something (energy released by nuclear fission).

Perhaps if we had an worldwide immediate embrace of the only off the shelf significant substitute for combustion, nuclear fission, we might start to bring those numbers down.

The waste for almost all fission reactors (with the exception of bad actors in the US, USSR, and UK nuclear weapons programs) is and was in the past almost entirely sequestered from the environment.

Two more important solutions that would obviate the need for his list are: switching to limitless energy sources (solar, tidal, geothermal, organic fuel, wind, and even nuclear fission or fusion once we have fusion power); and reducing humanity's growth.

An equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

Regardless of Hansen's dubious claims about CO2, America must build another hundred nuclear fission power plants for more electric power production.

A 2012 review of UK nuclear energy research found that UK Government expenditure on nuclear R&D was just # 66 million in 2010/11 — around # 30 million each for research into fusion and fission.

Today, most alternative energy technologies that are discussed — wind, solar, tides, waves, clean coal, nuclear fission and, perhaps one day, fusion — are useful only for making electricity.

Certainly in the long run people still hope that we'll get better ways to do nuclear fission and nuclear fusion for energy.

For these reasons nuclear fission is simply not a practical long - term solution to humanity's future energy needs.

But there are three other major energy options that need to be considered to help fill this need for non-fossil energy by 2050, one or all of which may end up being more cost effective and thus less harmful to global economic growth: nuclear fission (chapter 7), fusion (chapter 8), and solar power collected in space rather than on Earth's surface (chapter 9).

And, like hydro & geothermal, nuclear is storage — any atom not fissioned remains ready to do so for millions of years.

For something as complicated as climate science, the long run is longer than for making a bomb and nuclear power plant after the discovery of fission, which itself was a long time coming after the discovery of radioactiviFor something as complicated as climate science, the long run is longer than for making a bomb and nuclear power plant after the discovery of fission, which itself was a long time coming after the discovery of radioactivifor making a bomb and nuclear power plant after the discovery of fission, which itself was a long time coming after the discovery of radioactivity.

Nuclear fission also occurs in a nuclear bomb, but for nuclear energy the fission process is controlled and takes place in a nuclear fission reactor (Cattenom is picNuclear fission also occurs in a nuclear bomb, but for nuclear energy the fission process is controlled and takes place in a nuclear fission reactor (Cattenom is picnuclear bomb, but for nuclear energy the fission process is controlled and takes place in a nuclear fission reactor (Cattenom is picnuclear energy the fission process is controlled and takes place in a nuclear fission reactor (Cattenom is picnuclear fission reactor (Cattenom is pictured).

A 77 % first order feedback for a complex system is extraordinarily high — not unprecedented, because nuclear fission is higher — but high enough that it defies nearly every intuition I have about dynamic systems.

As for how to meet increasing demand for electricity without using more fossil fuels, I think nuclear fission is the only currently viable option.