nuclear fission

noun

physics
: a process in which the nucleus of a heavy atom is split apart

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That is reflected in the growth of public and private investments in nuclear fission and fusion technologies. Daniel Yergin, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025 This process releases a staggering amount of energy—many times more than achieved during nuclear fission—but at the same time produces no harmful byproducts. Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025 Each one of these tiny particles carries more than fifty million times the energy released by uranium during nuclear fission. Matt Von Hippel, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2024 Meitner, the best known of the four, helped discover nuclear fission. Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear fission

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