Word: fissioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself learned about the British research into nuclear fission for the first time only four months ago, when the Tories came back to power, although Attlee's Labor government had been working on the project for some time...
Every nuclear reactor, whether built to make plutonium or to generate power, produces radioactive "fission products." The supply of this radioactive material does not increase indefinitely because it eventually reaches a point of equilibrium where new additions are balanced by decay of the old. But the fission products must be removed and stored where they can do no damage.* "In these days of cold war," says Thirring, it is likely that "countries possessing atomic piles will store their dangerous by-products with the intention of using them to make enemy cities or industrial centers uninhabitable." He suggests that this will...
...fission products from the great plutonium reactors at Hanford, Wash. are tucked away underground in stainless steel tanks...
...physics prize was divided between Britain's Sir John D. Cockcroft and Ulsterman E.T.S. Walton. Working as a team at Cambridge, England, they built a high-voltage machine in 1932, seven years before the discovery of uranium fission, which smashed lithium atoms, turning each into two helium nuclei and a powerful jolt of energy. The Cockcroft-Walton reaction is inefficient, but the energy that it produces is genuinely nuclear, released when mass is turned into energy...
Atomic Energy Commission. Since the publication of the Smyth report in 1945, the world has known that controlled fission reaction is possible in an atomic pile, releasing heat slowly over a long period of time. If a safe and economical way to harness this heat to a steam turbine could be devised, it would be an ideal propulsion unit for a submarine. Rickover persuaded the AEC to begin work on a pilot model...