Word: fissioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radioactive Hornets. Brookhaven scientists discovered that ordinary hornets accumulate barium in their bodies. Since radioactive barium is one of the products of uranium fission, they intend to place hornets at key positions around Brookhaven's nuclear reactor. If the hornets become radioactive, the scientists will know that fission products are getting loose...
...their opinion, was informed that the invention was dangerous and impractical. A year later, the Soviet press asserted, the plate was produced by a vulture named Brown, in Sheffield, England. The list of Russian firsts which pulls Pyatov up from obscurity starts with the adding machine, anesthesia, Antarctica, atomic fission, runs on to the wedge breechblock and the wool-combing machine...
...Saul Hertz, instructor in Medicine in the Medical School, has announced that he has founded an institution, The Radioactive Isotope Research Institute, whose purpose is to apply radioactive fission products to the treatment of the thyroid cancer, goiter, and other malignant growths...
...Nuclear fission used to be a subject upon which a writer could simply crank up and let loose, but no longer . . . Space flight is still good for a yarn, but already one university offers a course in theoretical astrogation...
...there's always more than one level of interpretation to a thing. For instance the rock symbol is bound to be enigmatic. Biblically it's the deity, the source. This rock started out spherical, egg-shaped. Then in the process of working it out I made a fission, a break in it. There's a lot of destruction going on all through the picture-the phosphorescence of decay-but I think the emphasis is on construction. Compositionally the figures and the smoke all spiral toward the building being done...