• Binary cycle: Hot water from the earth is used to heat ... The force of the neutrons in the reactor causes atoms in the uranium to split, in a process called nuclear fission. A chain reaction ...

Subtle quantum effects within atomic nuclei can dramatically affect how some nuclei break apart. By studying 100 isotopes ...

An international team of scientists has identified an unexpected region of heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes in the nuclear chart where nuclear fission is predominantly governed by an asymmetric mode.

significantly improving their predictive power for fission fragment distributions in neutron-rich systems, relevant for example in r-process nucleosynthesis in the cosmos." The discovery is a ...

An international collaboration of scientists working with the FAIR Phase 0 program at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für ...

As part of the characterization work, OREM and UCOR identified the types and levels of contamination in the former Fission Production Development Lab, known as Building 3517, at Oak Ridge National ...

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday briefly discussed the revision of Opus Dei’s statutes with the apostolate’s prelate, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, a revision that was postponed following the death of ...

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Researchers at Russia's A.I. Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering discovered a way to achieve a balanced ...

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