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fission

[fish-uhn] / ˈfɪʃ ən /


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Next, Nasa wants to build nuclear and solar power facilities on the Moon, including fission reactors.

From BBC May 26, 2026

Existing U.S. nuclear plants, which provide an estimated 18% of the country’s electricity, rely on fission, which splits atoms.

From MarketWatch May 18, 2026

Conventional nuclear plants split heavy atoms in a process called fission.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

"We therefore needed an energy acceptor that selectively captures the multiplied triplet excitons after fission."

From Science Daily Mar. 28, 2026

As befit the man who had challenged Ernest Rutherford’s disparagement of atomic power as “moonshine” back in 1933, Ernest Lawrence’s first instinct was to take the news of fission as vindication.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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