Word: fissionability
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...Harvard baseball team must love nuclear fission...
...control the fusion reac- tion and confine it to a chamber, which requires surmounting some formidable physical constraints. The hydrogen nuclei must be crushed together with enough force to overcome their mutually repellent positive electric charges. In H-bombs, that force is supplied by the detonation of a fission bomb, or A-bomb...
...those ash-laden trucks. Coal ash is essentially inert and harmless. Used nuclear fuel rods, which are 12 ft. long and ½ in. in diameter and are fastened together in bundles reminiscent of the fasces carried by magisterial aides of ancient Rome, remain very dangerous. Contaminated by such fission products as strontium 90, cesium 137 and plutonium 239, they are not only physically hot (at several hundred degrees), but will remain radioactive for thousands of years...
...Archie Bunker, played unfalteringly by Carroll O'Connor, entered into the American consciousness on a chilly Tuesday night in January 1971, when a nervous CBS first aired All in the Family. Archie, Wife Edith, Daughter Gloria and Son-in-Law Mike were a nuclear family born out of fission as they grappled with such TV taboos as racism, impotence, abortion, rape, homosexuality and alcoholism. When the three other principals (played by Jean Stapleton, 58, Sally Struthers, 34, and Rob Reiner, 38) left, O'Connor, 57, bought a neighborhood bar and turned it and the show into Archie Bunker...
...long it would take to develop a working antimissile system: "Fission was discovered late in 1938, and the first atomic bomb exploded in the summer of 1945. To my mind, our job today is comparable; perhaps more difficult, perhaps more easy. I tend to be an optimist...