Nuclear fission—when the nucleus of an atom splits ... For the last 85 years, physicists have proposed a variety of theoretical models of the fission dynamics behind that neck rupture.

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

Helium ion, two neutrons, two protons and three electrons. Nuclear fission close nuclear fissionThe splitting of a large nucleus to produce two smaller ones. Two or three neutrons are also ...

Her story is a sad one. Meitner based her fission argument on the “liquid droplet model” of nuclear structure – a model that likened the forces that hold the atomic nucleus together to the ...

THE importance of the ‘magic’ neutron numbers 50 and 82 has been repeatedly stressed 1. It has been suggested that these numbers of neutrons form shells of considerable stability, and that ...