Word: fissionable
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...from the restricted data category, including such areas as fuel element fabrication and processing techniques," and keep secret only the military applications of atomic energy. As it is, private enterprise lacks the information on which it can make intelligent decisions, e.g., a utility might invest heavily in a nuclear-fission power plant when AEC is sitting on the facts about a better system...
...reason for Europe's slow atomic progress is its political fission. Even in trying to get together, Europe has almost as many international atomic-energy committees as it does atomic-power plants...
...international conference of atomic scientists in Geneva last summer, many charges were made that the age of nuclear fission might introduce an age of freaks and monsters. Ingalls replied yesterday that "Hydrogen bombs can cause such direct havoc to a whole population by their direct effects, that little is to be gained at this point by concentrating on the speculation that the impact is to be measured in mutations and inheritable monstrosities...
Last week Sylvester prescribed the appropriate beverage to go with reducing diets: "Lighter fluid." Sylvester can seldom resist a pun. He told about the vending machine that sells flowers and gives "change in peonies," and the vacationing scientist who posted a sign on his office, "Gone Fission." When the German Chancellor flew to Moscow, Sylvester wondered: "Due to time changes, did he have to Adenauer...
...made by the neutron-fattening process or found in bomb debris. One of them has been: Element 101. But all of these atomic monstrosities will be short-lived. The forces that hold nuclei together do not seem to work well above the weight of uranium. The outsized atoms either fission (split) spontaneously or turn into lighter elements by radioactive decay...