Sentences with phrase «only nuclear fission»

Not exact matches

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

Only four years after German scientists discovered nuclear fission, scientists in America took the first step toward harnessing it.

Fission, however, is not the only nuclear option.

As a final remark - CO2 capture and storage can only be a transitional technology - it can herald the hydrogen economy - it can also give us a choice not to use nuclear fission whilst fusion is still being dveloped.

«The most compelling reason to look seriously at the PRISM is that it can burn all the long - lived actinides in spent nuclear fuel, leaving only fission products with a roughly 300 - year radioactive lifetime.

As an avid Terry Pratchett game (his books and Firefly are the only two things I've ever claimed to be a fanboy about) I cracked open the Discworld board game with something approaching nuclear - fission generating levels of excitement, but I suppressed that feeling quickly because board games are an art, their design tricky to master.

As a final remark - CO2 capture and storage can only be a transitional technology - it can herald the hydrogen economy - it can also give us a choice not to use nuclear fission whilst fusion is still being dveloped.

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.

Current technology includes nuclear fission, which is more than capable of dealing with global energy needs, and at costs lower than fossil — IF it were only deployed.

The only alternative baseload energy production technology is nuclear 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.

So let's just agree to subtract it out as completely irrelevant to a discussion of thermodynamics, unless the «air» in question is inside the core of a star that is in the peculiar state where it is fusing oxygen and nitrogen or sometimes fissioning them with fast neutrons (the only processes I can think of that might change their baseline mass - energy by altering their strong nuclear interaction energy).

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

The fluoride salt thorium reactor can produce nuclear wastes that consist only of fission products, which quickly decay to stable elements - in fact some elements like xenon or rhodium represent valuable commercial products after a few months «cooling down».

But then I went on to envisage, at least in my own mind, a time when large fossil fuel generators had all closed own — mainly in order to avoid ruining our one and only habitable planet — and that the 24/7 power supply would be a mix of Solar PV, solar thermal (eg CSP), wind and the lesser sources such as hydro, tidal, geothermal etc having taken over the complete electricity supply — especially since Australia doesn't have, and is almost certain never to have, nuclear fission plants.

In real life, however, the only way to transmute other materials into gold is through a nuclear reactor (fusion or fission depending upon the source materials) and you do need a permit from the nuclear regulatory commission in the United States to build a nuclear reactor.