"Fission plants" refers to nuclear power plants that generate electricity through a process known as nuclear fission. In this process, the nucleus of an atom (usually uranium or plutonium) is split into two smaller parts, releasing a large amount of energy. This energy is then used to produce electricity.
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- An equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Raypierre makes the case very clear in the current Chicago Int» l Law J. that closed system combustion with oxygen can avoid much of the externalization of costs built into current plants; I imagine it can even contain the uranium and thorium fallout from coal (which is worse than that from a properly operated fission plant). (realclimate.org)
- (In addition, it seems to me that we'll probably have to provide aid to help the very poorest countries in return perhaps for their adherence to a stricter non-proliferation protocol, because the resources to for example build and run fission plants are beyond them. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
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