Word: fissioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...deliberately by "fattening" plutonium with neutrons in the Arco, Idaho materials-testing reactor (TIME, March 8, 1954). but the news of their earlier and more violent birth was not declassified until this week. Probable reason: no one was supposed to know that UJ-238, which can be made to fission in a thermonuclear ex plosion, was a factor in Test Mike...
...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...
...delegation made fusion seem even more tantalizing by releasing for the first time cost figures for fuel, for fusion and for fission. One pound of heavy hydrogen costs only $140; one pound of pure uranium 235, used as reactor fuel, costs a whopping $11,000. Most important, a fusion reactor's fuel supply is as inexhaustible as the oceans-in every gallon of water there is one part deuterium (heavy hydrogen) to 5,000 parts of light hydrogen, easily separated by electrolysis...