Sentences with phrase «of nuclear fission»

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.

Radioactive iodine is a common byproduct of nuclear fission and is a pollutant in nuclear disasters including the recent meltdown in Japan and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Nuclear fusion energy has none of the major problems of nuclear fission energy.

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.

But the whole enterprise of nuclear fission is based on a misunderstanding

Lise Meitner solved the problem of nuclear fission — and although she never got the Nobel, she is the only woman outside of mythology to have an element named after her alone

Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968) In 1938, after she escaped from the Nazis to Sweden, she carried out the key calculations that led to the discovery of nuclear fission.

Cesium - 137, a radioactive product of nuclear fission, is one of the largest threats: it mimics potassium in the body and is taken up in the muscles.

``... humans will adapt and survive over shorter time periods in climate than over the half - lives of nuclear fission byproducts.»

Officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and U.S. Department of Energy, at a news conference in Las Vegas, detailed the development of the nuclear fission system under NASA's Kilopower project.

The results appear to fit empirical data of nuclear fission better than previously established models.

On September 1, 1939, the opening day of World War II, the Physical Review published a landmark paper describing the theory of nuclear fission.

Together, the new experimental and theoretical studies will give us a much better understanding of nuclear fission, which can help improve the performance and safety of nuclear reactors.

In 1939 Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder published a paper in the same issue of the Physical Review that featured Niels Bohr and John Wheeler's seminal article on the mechanism of nuclear fission -LSB-...]

«New model considers an extra factor to improve our prediction of nuclear fission.»

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

What technical obstacles currently most curtail the growth of nuclear fission?

His letter to President Franklin Roosevelt, composed at the request and with the aid of immigrant Leo Szilard from Hungary, warned of nuclear fission's explosive potential.

Worse, reactor No. 3 also employed so - called mixed oxide fuel — or uranium fuel rods made from recycled materials that include plutonium — creating extra cause for concern of nuclear fission restarting itself.

From the fascinating (an intricately diagrammed explanation of nuclear fission) to the terrifying (an in - depth hypothetical example of what would happen if a 150 kiloton nuclear explosion occurred in New York City), the site covers all the bases.

The company says the reactor design is a combination of nuclear fission, space reactor technologies and over 50 years of commercial nuclear systems design, engineering and innovation.

Content includes description of background radiation, description and animation of nuclear fission and diagram explaining how this leads to a chain reaction.

The day of nuclear fission powered devices that never need charged aren't here yet, but there are plenty of affordable -LSB-...]

But, the authors concede, the nuclear industry is flat on its face in most places, so we must wait for the next generation of nuclear fission (or even fusion!)

This topic briefly describes the complex topic of nuclear fission energy.

There are various types of nuclear fission reactors.

Unless that content would be a left over of the earth's creation or the result of nuclear fission, this falsifies (1).

Tipping points imply runaway positive feedback, something that is a feature of nuclear fission but is generally not a feature of stable natural processes.

These are VERY high feedbacks for any natural physical system short of nuclear fission, and this issue is the main (but by no means only) reason many of us are skeptical of catastrophic forecasts.

NUCLEAR ENERGY Heat energy produced by the process of nuclear fission within a nuclear reactor.

If that seems remarkable, it becomes all the more so when you realise that the whole enterprise of nuclear fission is based on a misunderstanding.

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.

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.

This is a conservative estimate of the nuclear energy added to the subterranean water, because other products of nuclear fission and decay would have added additional energy, and some water was expelled permanently from earth.

I don't think Cosmic Rays were ever as much about it [AGW], as say, what to do about it; if «it» were indeed happening, whether by anthropogenic causes or combinations or other field properties - nuclear power is NOT the way to go; humans will adapt and survive over shorter time periods in climate than over the half - lives of nuclear fission byproducts.

It is that nuclear element that provides our theme today for the 304th edition of Blawg Review, because March 28 is a date of some significance in relation of Our Friend, the Atom, and to both the military and civilian uses of the power of nuclear fission.

Especially no theoretical models have not reproduced the kinetic energy i.e. the thermal energy of nuclear fission, with predictive power.

Any injury caused by, contributed to, or arising from nuclear ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste or from the combustion of nuclear fuel (including any self - sustaining process of nuclear fission) or nuclear weapons material or nuclear equipment or any part of that equipment