Fusion produces no greenhouse gases, and, unlike nuclear fission, it does not produce long-lived radioactive waste.
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Would you trust your next door neighbor to responsibly manage a fission reactor in his basement?
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Because, says Chellaney, that test was done with a crude fission device detonated without a warhead.
The control rods caused each generation of fission to produce fewer neutrons and fewer fission reactions.
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Perhaps it's true that Einstein was referring to nuclear fission compounding at a rapid rate--e.g.
When the inspectors arrived, Iraq was probably within months of producing a fission bomb.
Few believe in fusion now, though uranium-powered fission reactors may be coming back into fashion.
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Normal fission involves breaking uranium or plutonium atoms up by hitting them with neutrons.
In the meantime he is touting a genre known as small modular fission reactors.
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The growing mountain of nuclear waste from fission reactors, however, has recently rekindled interest in the scheme.
As venture capitalists, we at Polaris might have invested in one or two of these fission-energy start-ups.
So far, there are five fission and two fusion start-ups, among them Hyperion, NuScale and Tri Alpha.
His plan would be to centrally manufacture small fission reactors and distribute them widely for burial underground.
Nuclear fission in the context of the span of history is, like the ancient discovery of fire, game-changing.
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This is why the idea of nuclear fusion is cool as opposed to fission, if this is possible.
There are some characteristics of a nuclear fission reactor that will be common to every nuclear fission reactor.
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In particular, we should drop the requirement that the commission be reimbursed for reconsidering new fission reactor designs.
So, if it's cheap and clean energy we want, we should clear the way for fission energy start-ups.
Xenon-133 is a radioactive noble gas produced during nuclear fission that poses no concern at the detected level.
The experimental fusion reactors, he suggests, could be used to clean up the waste generated by the fission reactors.
Nuclear fission, generally fuelled by uranium or plutonium, heats up water which evaporates.
The neutrons are created in a fission reactor, and slowed to incredibly low speeds by materials known as moderators.
The document called for increased in areas such as solar power, biofuels, nuclear fission and carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Think of nuclear fission: it generates useful energy but if it runs out of control you get a cataclysmic explosion.
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Nuclear fission avoids using large quantities of fossil fuel for energy but is very contentious because it produces radioactive waste.
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Loomis backed much of Lawrence's work, not least his uranium fission research, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.
Fission had first been discovered in Germany and that greatly disturbed the foreign-born scientists who had immigrated to America to flee persecution.
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The Earth is warmed naturally by its own nuclear fission reactors within and also by the sun, that big nuclear fusion reactor.
Modular nuclear reactors take uranium, or in some cases thorium, and produce steam for turbines via heat generated in fission reactions.
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Its breakthroughs ran the gamut from helicopters to computing to nuclear fission.
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