Sample sentences for NUCLEAR FISSION

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a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

One advantage to obtaining energy from nuclear fission is its small carbon footprint.
Many people are frightened by nuclear fission because they associate it with bombs.
Did you do a paper on the trigger principle of nuclear fission?
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
The shelter consideration had been decades ahead of its time; nuclear fission had then only been a theory, fusion hardly thought of at all.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
It releases energy with 100 percent efficiency (nuclear fission is 1.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
He hosted the Disney broadcast called "Our Friend the Atom" and wrote a popular children's book with the same title, both of which made nuclear fission seem fun, instead of terrifying.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
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Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash

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