fission process

collocation in English

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fission
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfɪʃ.ən/us
/ˈfɪʃ.ən/
physicsspecialized
the process of dividing the nucleus of an atom, resulting in the release of a large amount of ...
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process
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.ses/us
/ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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(Definition offissionandprocessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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During thefissionprocessexcess energy is shed as dispersive waves on the short wavelength side.
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We await the news about thefissionprocess, through which, we are told, one quart of water will be equal to 20,000 tons of coal.
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We can have a fusion process, rather than afissionprocess, where, by persuading two atoms to collide and stick together, we can generate electricity.
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It may well be that much of ourfissionprocesswill become obsolete in the next ten years.
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Science at present can hold out no prospect of a direct application of thefissionprocess, like the electric storage battery.
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Nuclear energy from thefissionprocessis not an ideal solution to the energy problem.
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The purpose for which it can be operated includes the actual production of atomic energy through a maintained and controlledfissionprocess.
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Part of the depleted uranium would be transmuted to plutonium in thefissionprocessand some of this could be used to fuel further fast reactor plant.
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We must urgently try to produce more acceptable means of energy generation so as not to have to rely on the nuclearfissionprocesslonger than we must.
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The fusion power would not produce the long-lived actinides or fission products characteristic of thefissionprocess, but the tritium fuel for fusion reactors will require careful handling.
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The reflectors were composed of a layer of beryllium, which would reflect neutrons, thus allowing the reactor to begin and maintain thefissionprocess.
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After start up, thefissionprocessin the primary fuel salt produces highly radioactive fission products with a high gamma and neutron radiation field.
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This means as more energy is taken out of the core the moderation rises and thefissionprocessis stoked to produce more heat.
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Thefissionprocessstops when the proton beam stops, as when power is lost, thus the reactor is subcritical.
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Xenon-135 produced in thefissionprocessacts as a neutron poison that absorbs neutrons and therefore tends to shut the reactor down.
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U can be made critical, however, since it will tend to parasitically absorb more neutrons than it releases by thefissionprocess.
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This cell multiplies, producing many amoeboid cells by an asexual cellfissionprocesscalled merogony.
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The most commonfissionprocessis binary fission, and it produces the fission products noted above, at 9515 and 13515 u.
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Antineutrinos are made in the beta-decay of neutron-rich daughter fragments in thefissionprocess.
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The coefficient quantifies the amount of neutrons that the nuclear fuel (uranium-238) absorbs from thefissionprocessas the fuel temperature increases.
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