Steven Weinberg

Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were possible to undiscover nuclear fission, I would be very happy to undiscover it, because of the risks that it puts us all under.

American Scientist

Wilson Greatbatch

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

Inventor

James Buchan

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

British Novelist

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.

Enrico Fermi

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

Italian Physicist

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.

Robert Zubrin

Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources.

Victoria Coren Mitchell

The Highway Code can't be that difficult to understand, and yet my brain seems to treat it as a set of nuclear fission instructions in Old Japanese.

English Writer

Used mainly in scientific contexts relating to nuclear physics and energy.

Technical Term

Emphasizes the significant amount of energy produced during the process.

Energy Release

Often used alongside words like 'reactor', 'chain reaction', and 'atomic'.

Nuclear Vocabulary

Refers to breaking up organizations into smaller entities.

Company Splitting

Often results from strategies to increase efficiency or profitability.

Strategic Decisions

Usually neutral but can be seen as positive in a business growth context.

Neutral to Positive

Describes how some organisms, especially single-celled, multiply.

Biological Reproduction

Clarify that in biology, fission is a form of asexual reproduction.

Not Sexual

Stresses the equal division of the organism into two parts.

Equal Halves

 don't know which came for his fission or fusion but he went into the garage and he did this thing that is like impossible and now he's gonna solve the world's energy problems because he's gonna build this nuclear reactor underground and he uses like nuclear reactor waste from other things that it

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 Where does this order come from? Its roots go way back. We actually don't know. But we do know that the self-organization trend throughout the universe is long, and it began with things like galaxies; they maintained their order for billions of years. Stars are basically nuclear fission machines

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 to scatter and slow down neutrons just enough to increase their capture by uranium and raise the rate of fission. Modern reactors commonly use purified water as a moderator, but the scattered neutrons are still a little too fast. To compensate and keep up the chain reaction,

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 Finding shelter is especially important if the fireball occurs close to the earth, as it will pull thousands of tons of dirt and debris several kilometers into the atmosphere. As the fireball cools, unstable atoms created by the nuclear fission mix with the debris

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 us the kind of a visual of what's out there and here you know to some degree the fission pots gave us a sampling of the life that's down here but actually being in it in this environment it's like nothing else I've ever seen I can't explain how surreal it is

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 things like galaxies they maintained their order for billions of years SARS are basically nuclear fission machines that self organize and self sustain themselves for billions of years this order against the extra P of the world and flowers and plants are the

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 And this probably is not what you're expecting. You're probably expecting me to come up here and talk about fusion, because that's what I've done most of my life. But this is actually a talk about, okay -- but this is actually a talk about fission.

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 The same is true of nuclear fission, solar, and wind. Breakthroughs in any of these technologies, and especially in all of them together, can change the not only helping us triple our electricity supply, but enabling us to sustain it.

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 disastrous could happen again i also want to work to find alternatives to nuclear fusion plants about that energy sources like solar wind geothermal and nuclear fusion can replace fossil fuels and nuclear fission in my lifetime if

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 fair enough but it brings me back think about world war two some of our great technologists and some of our great physicists studying nuclear fission fusion just nuclear stuff we gathered together these

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