News tagged with fission
New type of nuclear fission discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nuclear fission, or the splitting of a heavy nucleus, usually results in symmetrical fragments of the same mass. Physicists attribute the few known examples of fission that is asymmetric to ...
Dec 06, 2010 |
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How a Solar-Hydrogen Economy Could Supply the World's Energy Needs
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world's oil supply continues to dry out every day, the question of what will replace oil and other fossil fuels is becoming more and more urgent. According to the World Coal Institute, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Nuclear fusion-fission hybrid could contribute to carbon-free energy future
Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants.
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Six new isotopes of the superheavy elements discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114. Starting ...
Oct 26, 2010 |
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The first nuclear power plant for settlements on Moon, Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first nuclear power plant being considered for production of electricity for manned or unmanned bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets may really look like it came from outer space, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 28, 2011 |
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Physicists demonstrate conditions for laser-driven fusion
(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, commercial nuclear power plants generate electricity using nuclear fission, in which an atom’s nucleus is split into lighter nuclei. But scientists are also researching the ...
Mar 15, 2011 |
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How does a nuclear meltdown work? (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When working properly, nuclear reactors produce large amounts of heat via nuclear fission reactions. The heat converts the surrounding water into steam, which turns turbines and generates ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Scientists generate two energetic electronic states from one photon
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Colorado, Boulder (UCB), have reported the first designed molecular system ...
Dec 03, 2010 |
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Is the shape of a genome as important as its content?
If there is one thing that recent advances in genomics have revealed, it is that our genes are interrelated, "chattering" to each other across separate chromosomes and vast stretches of DNA. According to researchers ...
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Tainted nuke plant water reaches major NJ aquifer
(AP) -- Radioactive water that leaked from the nation's oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer that supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey, the state's environmental chief ...
May 08, 2010 |
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The curious case of germanium-72: An unusual isotope changes phases as temperature rises
(PhysOrg.com) -- There's a lot we don't know about the atomic nucleus, even though it was discovered a century ago this year.
Jun 02, 2011 |
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Fusion presents low proliferation risk, experts conclude
American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon-usable materials than nuclear fission reactors and their ...
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Modeling the bizarre: Quantum superfluids
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 100 years since superconductivity was discovered, a comprehensive description for the behavior of a broad class of fundamental physical systems that exhibit the bizarre properties ...
Jun 23, 2011 |
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Using supercomputers to explore nuclear energy (w/ Video)
Ever wanted to see a nuclear reactor core in action? A new computer algorithm developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory allows scientists to view nuclear ...
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Study identifies a key molecular switch for telomere extension by telomerase
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine describe for the first time a key target of DNA damage checkpoint enzymes that must be chemically modified to enable stable maintenance of chromosome ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Fission
Fission is a splitting of something into two parts.
Fission may refer to:
Other uses:
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