Nuclear fission is a reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei. The fission process often produces gamma photons... 74 KB (9,613 words) - 19:52, 23 April 2024 |
Look up fission in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fission, a splitting of something into two or more parts, may refer to: Fission (biology), the division... 528 bytes (103 words) - 08:37, 12 July 2021 |
Fission, in biology, is the division of a single entity into two or more parts and the regeneration of those parts to separate entities resembling the... 19 KB (2,203 words) - 14:23, 20 April 2024 |
Nuclear reactor (redirect from Fission reactor) A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions. Nuclear reactors are used at... 86 KB (10,441 words) - 18:21, 11 April 2024 |
Nuclear weapon (redirect from Fission bomb) destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing... 114 KB (12,992 words) - 23:06, 22 April 2024 |
Nuclear weapon design (redirect from Pure fission) weapon to detonate. There are three existing basic design types: pure fission weapons are the simplest, least technically demanding, were the first nuclear... 122 KB (15,994 words) - 10:23, 25 April 2024 |
Nuclear fission products are the atomic fragments left after a large atomic nucleus undergoes nuclear fission. Typically, a large nucleus like that of... 42 KB (5,142 words) - 10:07, 17 March 2024 |
Nuclear power (redirect from Fission power) nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced by nuclear fission of... 210 KB (21,052 words) - 23:37, 22 April 2024 |
Nuclear chain reaction (redirect from Self-sustaining nuclear fission) feedback loop" of these reactions. The specific nuclear reaction may be the fission of heavy isotopes (e.g., uranium-235, 235U). A nuclear chain reaction releases... 34 KB (4,713 words) - 13:09, 18 April 2024 |
A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The conditions under which a natural nuclear... 23 KB (2,978 words) - 02:16, 27 April 2024 |
Uranium-235 (section Fission properties) neutron absorptions induce fission, though a minority result in the formation of uranium-236.[citation needed] The fission of one atom of uranium-235... 12 KB (1,194 words) - 21:00, 27 March 2024 |
Star (redirect from Star fission) A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked... 146 KB (16,321 words) - 21:30, 23 April 2024 |
Nuclear power in space (redirect from Fission power system) space is the use of nuclear power in outer space, typically either small fission systems or radioactive decay for electricity or heat. Another use is for... 31 KB (3,499 words) - 01:08, 23 April 2024 |
Neutron (section Fission energy neutrons) nuclear fission in 1938, it was quickly realized that, if a fission event produced neutrons, each of these neutrons might cause further fission events... 107 KB (12,397 words) - 06:40, 1 May 2024 |
Cell division (redirect from Asynthetic fission) and archaea) usually undergo a vegetative cell division known as binary fission, where their genetic material is segregated equally into two daughter cells... 38 KB (4,250 words) - 03:38, 15 February 2024 |
In ethology, fission–fusion society is one in which the size and composition of the social group change as time passes and animals move throughout the... 10 KB (1,345 words) - 17:47, 19 November 2023 |
Fast-neutron reactor (redirect from Fast fission reactor) or simply a fast reactor is a category of nuclear reactor in which the fission chain reaction is sustained by fast neutrons (carrying energies above 1... 55 KB (7,478 words) - 16:15, 30 April 2024 |
Uranium (section Fission research) spontaneous fission or even induced fission with fast neutrons; uranium-235, and to a lesser degree uranium-233, have a much higher fission cross-section... 110 KB (12,403 words) - 09:40, 16 April 2024 |
Breeder reactor (redirect from Breeder nuclear fission) fertile material in turn transmutes into fissile material which can undergo fission reactions. Breeders were at first found attractive because they made more... 85 KB (8,717 words) - 22:38, 18 April 2024 |
Nuclear physics (section Nuclear fission) reactions. The fission or "nuclear" chain-reaction, using fission-produced neutrons, is the source of energy for nuclear power plants and fission-type nuclear... 40 KB (4,760 words) - 10:09, 23 April 2024 |
Cold fission or cold nuclear fission is defined as involving fission events for which fission fragments have such low excitation energy that no neutrons... 5 KB (633 words) - 08:09, 3 April 2024 |
Four factor formula (redirect from Fast fission factor) {\displaystyle \nu _{t}} are the average number of neutrons produced per fission in the medium (2.43 for uranium-235). σ f F {\displaystyle \sigma _{f}^{F}}... 4 KB (485 words) - 04:02, 14 April 2024 |
Plutonium (section Nuclear fission) and nuclear reactors. Plutonium-240 exhibits a high rate of spontaneous fission, raising the neutron flux of any sample containing it. The presence of... 141 KB (15,146 words) - 18:21, 23 April 2024 |
Neutron poison (redirect from Fission poisoning) neutrons by short half-life fission products is known as reactor poisoning; neutron capture by long-lived or stable fission products is called reactor... 18 KB (2,277 words) - 09:46, 8 November 2023 |