nuclear fission
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The fusion process creates energy by joining atoms together, while nuclear fission creates energy when atoms are split apart.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
Like all nuclear fission plants, they are controversial.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025
Left untouched, nuclear fission erupts into a runaway chain reaction that can heat the core of a nuclear plant to thousands of degrees, liquifying the metal around it into radioactive lava.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2024
Sam Altman, who also chairs Oklo, a nuclear fission microreactor start-up that’s set to go public this year, is backing the power source to satisfy the world’s growing energy needs, including from A.I.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024
The refugee Hungarian physicist had placed the very notion of atomic weaponry on the federal government’s radar in 1939, when he prompted Albert Einstein to alert Franklin Roosevelt to the military potential of nuclear fission.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
