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- noun Plural form of
fission .
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Many more fissions means much more fission products, including cesium You do the math.
Marvin Resnikoff: Doomsday Scenario at Fukushima Marvin Resnikoff 2011
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Many more fissions means much more fission products, including cesium You do the math.
Marvin Resnikoff: Doomsday Scenario at Fukushima Marvin Resnikoff 2011
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When reviewing video tapes of the live BP feeds, one can see in the tapes of mid-June that there is oil spewing up from visible fissions.
DK Matai: Gulf Oil Gusher: Danger of Tsunamis From Methane? 2010
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On Easter Sunday in 2006, Michael Luo published an essay in The New York Times that shed light on what then were growing fissions between evangelicals.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald: Is There a Future for Evangelicalism? 2010
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Over the next couple of years, much was made of the fissions and cracks that were beginning to show on the surface of evangelicalism, most often along the lines that the Pew Forum survey highlighted.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald: Is There a Future for Evangelicalism? 2010
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When reviewing video tapes of the live BP feeds, one can see in the tapes of mid-June that there is oil spewing up from visible fissions.
DK Matai: Gulf Oil Gusher: Danger of Tsunamis From Methane? 2010
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These reactors exploit the improved efficiency, in terms of fission, of neutrons that maintain the speed acquired from previous fissions.
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When the nucleus of a 235U atom captures a neutron it splits in two (fissions), releases energy in the form of heat, and emits two or three neutrons.
Uranium 2009
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A thorium reactor would work by having Th-232 capture a neutron to become Th-233 which decays to uranium-233, which then fissions.
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The fast reactor has no moderator and uses plutonium as its basic fuel since it fissions sufficiently with fast neutrons to keep going.
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