fission
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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
“There’s really strong bipartisan support for regulation on fusion power plants that does not mirror what’s done on fission power plants,” Beyer said.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
"We therefore needed an energy acceptor that selectively captures the multiplied triplet excitons after fission."
From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026
Today, all of the world’s nuclear energy is generated from fission, the process of splitting the nucleus of an atom.
From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025
When hit with a speeding neutron, U-238 does not fission.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing fission
Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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Chemistry - High School
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