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Nuclear fission of heavy elements produces energy because the specific binding energy ( binding energy per mass ) of intermediate-mass nuclei with atomic numbers and atomic masses close to < sup > 62 </ sup > Ni and < sup > 56 </ sup > Fe is greater than the nucleon-specific binding energy of very heavy nuclei, so that energy is released when heavy nuclei are broken apart.
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** Nuclear fission
Nuclear fission is the reverse process of fusion.
Nuclear fission of heavy elements was discovered in 1938, and named by analogy with biological fission of living cells.
Nuclear fission produces energy for nuclear power and to drive the explosion of nuclear weapons.
Nuclear fission can occur without neutron bombardment, as a type of radioactive decay.
Nuclear fission differs importantly from other types of nuclear reactions, in that it can be amplified and sometimes controlled via a nuclear chain reaction.
Nuclear fission weapons must use an extremely high quality, highly-enriched fuel exceeding the critical size and geometry ( critical mass ) in order to obtain an explosive chain reaction.
Nuclear fission weapons require a mass of fissile fuel that is prompt supercritical.
Nuclear reactors generally have automatic and manual systems to shut the fission reaction down if unsafe conditions are detected.
* Nuclear fission reactors produce heat through a controlled nuclear chain reaction in a critical mass of fissile material.
Nuclear energy usually means the part of the energy of an atomic nucleus, which can be released by fusion or fission or radioactive decay.
* Nuclear power, the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity
Nuclear particles like protons and neutrons are not destroyed in fission and fusion processes, but collections of them have less mass than if they were individually free, and this mass difference is liberated as heat and radiation in nuclear reactions ( the heat and radiation have the missing mass, but it often escapes from the system, where it is not measured ).
** Nuclear: A runaway nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction causes immense energy release.
Nuclear fission thus releases energy which has been stored, sometimes billions of years before, during stellar nucleosynthesis.
Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of the breakdown ( fission ) as well as the fusion of atomic nuclei and / or the application of other sub-atomic physics, based on the principles of nuclear physics.
Nuclear fission is the disintegration of a susceptible ( fissile ) atom's nucleus into two different, smaller elements and other particles including neutrons.
Nuclear fission is made by separating one atom or combining two different atoms.
( The blue ' ionization | pre-ionisation ' curve applies to certain types of Nuclear weapon design | thermonuclear weapon, where gamma ray | gamma and x-ray s from the primary fission stage Ionization | ionise the atmosphere and make it electrically conductive before the main pulse from the thermonuclear stage.
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Nuclear fission type atomic bombs utilize the energy present in very heavy atomic nuclei, such as U-235 or Pu-239.
Nuclear fusion bombs can have arbitrarily high yields making them hundreds or thousands of times more powerful than nuclear fission bombs.
Several experiments have been performed between 2000 – 2008 at the Flerov laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna studying the fission characteristics of the compound nucleus < sup > 302 </ sup > Ubn.
Nuclear and heavy
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act further limits the capacity of the repository to of initial heavy metal in commercial spent fuel.
: Nuclear fusion, the combining of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, also has the potential to produce large quantities of neutrons.
The town of Dubna was officially inaugurated in 1956, together with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( JINR ), which has developed into a large international research laboratory involved mainly in particle physics, heavy ion physics, synthesis of transuranium elements, and radiobiology.
These concentrate on broad sub-fields ( e. g. nuclear spectroscopy, nuclear reaction mechanisms, heavy ion physics, are possible sub-fields in the field of Nuclear Physics ).
" Cloud Connected " is the first single by the Swedish heavy metal band In Flames taken from the album Reroute to Remain, released by Nuclear Blast in 2002.
Until its closure in 1997, the Bruce Heavy Water Plant in Ontario ( located close to the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station ) was the world's largest heavy water production plant, with a capacity of 700 tonnes per year.
* Aspects of heavy quark theory, by I. Bigi, M. Shifman and N. Uraltsev ( Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science, v 47, 1997, p 591-661 )
* Annotated bibliography for Norwegian heavy water sabotage from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
Eduard Kozulin, head of the nuclear reaction laboratory of the United Nuclear Research Institute, checking the experiment readiness of the supersensitive analyzer of heavy atoms mass.
TIFR has a Linear particle accelerator and a Pelletron capable of accelerating particles to moderate energies for studying heavy ion atomic interactions and a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility to study complex molecules housed in campus in addition to several other facilities.
VUWSA has traditionally maintained a heavy involvement in New Zealand's social and political movements such as the Nuclear Free New Zealand Movement, the Vietnam War and the War in Iraq.
As a result, a recommendation was written for the acceptance of the tender to supply a 600 MWe Steam generating heavy water reactor ( SGHWR ), from the British organisation The Nuclear Power Group.
Ltd .- A joint venture ( JV ) with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited ( NPCIL ), for establishment of super heavy forging nuclear equipment manufacturing facility at Surat-Hazira.
Kirloskar Brothers is closely associated with India's nuclear program and has made canned motor pumps for pumping heavy water which are deployed at Indian Nuclear Power Plants.
Nuclear and elements
* Annotated bibliography for the transuranic elements from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues.
Pewee 2's fuel elements reduced fuel corrosion still further, by a factor of 3 in Nuclear Furnace testing, but Pewee 2 was never tested on the stand.
Nuclear energy production is associated with potentially dangerous radioactive contamination as it relies upon unstable elements.
Nuclear energy makes use of Earth's mineral deposits of fissionable elements, while geothermal power taps the Earth's internal heat, which comes from a combination of residual heat from planetary accretion ( about 20 %) and heat produced through radioactive decay ( 80 %).
* A team composed of Russian scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and American scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report on the discovery of two new transuranium ( superheavy ) chemical elements with very high atomic masses.
The use of Nuclear elements in the Nation may only have peaceful purposes ( i. e., Mexico cannot build nuclear weapons ).
Only the Nuclear Reporting Cell ( NRC ) elements of the Corps remained in service, working alongside major armed forces headquarters and they entered a new and highly-uncertain phase.
The third is Nuclear power derived from Uranium and other fissile elements.
* CBRNE ( Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear & Explosive )-Specially-trained Toronto EMS paramedics operate together with elements of the Toronto Police Service and Toronto Fire Services to provide a joint-service Terrorism / Hazardous Materials Response team.
Nuclear reaction analysis ( NRA ) is a nuclear method in materials science to obtain concentration vs. depth distributions for certain target chemical elements in a solid thin film.
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