Sentences with 'fission'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fission and other words derived from it.
• « For further thought: in a nuclear reactor, nuclear fission occurs, and this produces a complex mixture of radioactive forms of many elements, one of which - plutonium 239 - has a lifetime of no less than 24,400 years. Of all the possible radioactive discharges, perhaps the most dangerous is the so-called "iodine-131", which is deposited in the grass that cows eat and then appears in their milk. »
• « These include nuclear fission propulsion, ion propulsion and also photonic propulsion, i.e. pulsed by the pressure of light. But these are all systems that are out of the realm of possibility. »
• « The importance of heavy water lies in the fact that it is an irreplaceable neutron moderator in fission reactions in nuclear reactors. »