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• CaliforniumRelated: Spontaneous fission in californium-252 releases its characteristic neutrons.

• Frédéric Joliot-CurieRelated: After fission’s discovery, Joliot investigated the possibility of a sustained nuclear chain reaction.

• LawrenciumRelated: Fission events provide another detectable decay path for some lawrencium isotopes.

• Little BoyRelated: Fission released the energy behind Little Boy's blast and radiation.

• Neutron moderationRelated: Moderation is often used to make neutrons more likely to trigger fission in fissile fuel.

• Enewetak AtollRelated: Fission powered the early devices tested at Enewetak and initiated thermonuclear explosions.

• PromethiumRelated: Fission of uranium and plutonium produces promethium among its radioactive products.

• RutherfordiumRelated: Some rutherfordium isotopes are produced in reactions involving heavy target nuclei and emitted neutrons.

• Tsar BombaRelated: A fission primary initiated the thermonuclear sequence.

• Discovery of the neutronRelated: The neutron’s lack of charge made it an effective projectile for inducing nuclear reactions.

• EinsteiniumRelated: Fission reactors provide neutron-rich environments for producing heavier einsteinium isotopes.

• Synthetic elementRelated: Fission fragments can include short-lived synthetic elements such as technetium.

• UnbihexiumRelated: Rapid fission could prevent a newly formed element-126 nucleus from being observed.

• Ben Roy MottelsonRelated: Understanding nuclear deformation also informs how nuclei approach the shapes involved in fission.

• C. T. R. WilsonRelated: Cloud-chamber tracks helped researchers observe particles and reactions associated with nuclear physics.

• History of atomic theoryRelated: Nuclear structure made it possible to explain and harness transformations within atoms.

• MendeleviumRelated: Researchers identified the first mendelevium atoms through characteristic fission events.

• Nuclear engineeringRelated: Fission supplies the energy and neutrons used in most power reactors.

• Period 6 elementRelated: Period 6 uranium and plutonium isotopes are central fuels in many fission systems.

• Semi-empirical mass formulaRelated: The formula’s surface and Coulomb terms help explain why splitting heavy nuclei can release energy.

• UnbipentiumRelated: Rapid fission is among the decay processes that could prevent an Unbipentium nucleus from surviving.

• UnhexoctiumRelated: Fission is one predicted decay route for extremely heavy nuclei such as a hypothetical element 168.

• UnhexpentiumRelated: Spontaneous fission is one possible decay route for nuclei in this mass range.

• UnpentquadiumRelated: Rapid fission is a major obstacle to producing and observing nuclei at such high atomic numbers.

• UnquadquadiumRelated: Spontaneous fission is a possible decay route for nuclei as heavy as element 144.

• UntrienniumRelated: Fission could compete with other decay routes in any extremely heavy element 139 nucleus.

• UntriniliumRelated: Rapid fission is a major obstacle to producing or observing a nucleus this heavy.

• Energy sourceRelated: Fission releases heat that can generate electricity in nuclear power plants.

• Isotopes of uraniumRelated: Some uranium isotopes can undergo fission after absorbing a neutron.

• Nuclear technologyRelated: Fission sustains most present-day nuclear power and drives many nuclear weapons.

• UnpentbiumRelated: Fission competes with survival in the decay of superheavy nuclei.

• UnquadenniumRelated: Rapid fission can prevent newly formed superheavy nuclei from surviving long enough to detect.

• UnquadniliumRelated: Fission may destroy candidate element-140 nuclei before they can be observed.

• UnquadtriumRelated: Fission competes with radioactive decay in determining whether a superheavy nucleus survives.

• UnseptbiumRelated: Fission could rapidly destroy a putative element 172 nucleus before it is detected.

• UntrihexiumRelated: Competing decay pathways would determine whether a hypothetical element 136 nucleus survives.

• UntrioctiumRelated: Fission could rapidly destroy nuclei formed at atomic number 138.

• UntriquadiumRelated: Rapid fission is one expected route by which very heavy nuclei may decay.

• UntriuniumRelated: Any synthesized element 131 nucleus would likely face competing decay pathways, including fission.

• Walther BotheRelated: Bothe’s group measured neutron yields from uranium fission, informing estimates of the process’s chain-reaction potential.