Sentences with phrase «nuclear fission reactors»

Because it is our generation that will benefit from the wealth produced by nuclear fission reactors, all our heirs will receive is our radioactive garbage.

And the only thing that's compact and concentrated enough to supply a spacecraft with tens of megawatts of electricity (enough to power about 10,000 homes) is a lightweight nuclear fission reactor — something that does not yet exist.

In theory, the result will be clean electricity galore with no carbon emissions and far less radioactive waste than today's nuclear fission reactors leave behind.

One option: small nuclear fission reactors, which work by splitting uranium atoms to generate heat, which is then converted into electric power.

The U.S. space agency is going to test nuclear fission reactors, later this year; these are going to help in colonizing Mars.

There are various types of nuclear fission reactors.

I was very surprised to read in your editorial that nuclear fission reactors are accepted as one of the energy...

A short while later, the Europa mission came back to life, when it was linked with an experimental ion propulsion system powered by a nuclear fission reactor, the pet idea of Sean O'Keefe, then NASA's administrator.

I was very surprised to read in your editorial that nuclear fission reactors are accepted as one of the energy providers that should feature in the UK's energy generation portfolio (9 November, p 3).

Interestingly, depending on the coal they burn, some coal plants emit more radiation into the atmosphere than any nuclear fission reactor.

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 pictured).

Future nuclear fission reactors potentially will be much more attractive than current nuclear fission reactors.