Collocations withfission
These are words often used in combination withfission.
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fission power
It is sometimes forgotten that a fusion power station will be radioactive just as a fission power station is radioactive.
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fission process
We await the news about the fission process, through which, we are told, one quart of water will be equal to 20,000 tons of coal.
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fission product
However, it is possible that either fission product be the sole survivor.
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fission reaction
I still think that, until you have fusion energy, this is the neatest form—or, as the scientist would say, it is a beautiful form—of fission reaction.
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fission reactor
This is similar to a high temperature gas fission reactor.
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radioactive fission
The reference accident, on which the plans are based, envisages the release of some radioactive fission products into the atmosphere.
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spontaneous fission
Most of these decay predominantly through alpha decay, but some undergo spontaneous fission.
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