Sentences with phrase «splitting uranium atoms»

Today's nuclear reactors do dramatically better by splitting uranium atoms through fission, but they still fail to extract more than 0.08 percent of their energy.

This is important because slowly moving neutrons are more efficient at splitting uranium atoms than fast moving neutrons.

Splitting a uranium atom converts only about 0.1 percent of its mass into energy, but mixing matter and antimatter is 100 percent efficient.

When a faster neutron splits a Uranium atom, odds are that more neutrons will come out than if a thermal neutron hit it.

Not exact matches

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.

there's really no room for the concept of an independent entity possessed of «will» in a worldview shaped by cause and effect; the only place for «will» to retreat to is the zone of true randomness, of complete uncertainty, which means that truly free will as such must be completely inscrutible [sic]... Statistical laws govern the decay of a block of uranium, but whether or not this atom of uranium chooses to fission in this instant is a completely unpredictable event — fundamentally unpredictable, something which simply can not be known — which is equally good evidence for the proposition that it's God's (or the atom's) will whether it splits or remains whole, as for the proposition that it's random chance.

Since neutrons traveling through heavy water split atoms more efficiently, less uranium should be needed to achieve a critical mass; that's the minimum amount of uranium required to start a spontaneous chain reaction of atoms splitting in rapid succession.

Every time an incoming neutron bombards one of the uranium atoms, the atom splits in two, expelling energy and releasing more neutrons, which in turn collide with other atoms and establish a chain reaction.

What is more, the uranium atoms that have already split in two produce radioactive by - products that themselves give off a great deal of heat.

It is also said to be «fertile,» because when a uranium 238 atom absorbs a neutron without splitting, it transmutes into plutonium 239, which, like uranium 235, is fissile and can sustain a chain reaction.

All reactors produce energy by splitting the nuclei of heavymetal (high - atomic - weight) atoms, mainly uranium or elements derived from uranium.

Fusion is the opposite of fission, which frees energy when an atom like uranium splits into two smaller atomic nuclei.

However, about six anti-neutrinos are released every time a uranium atom is split to release energy, so the number coming from a nuclear reactor is so large that a cubic - meter scale detector can record them by the hundreds or thousands per day.

First one neutron splits one uranium atom which in the process of splitting releases 2 neutrons.

Nuclear power plants, however, heat the water using fission reactions, splitting atoms of uranium or plutonium and producing no carbon emissions.