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Nuclear Fission

Known as: Fission, Nuclear, Fissions, Nuclear, Nuclear Fissions 
Nuclear reaction in which the nucleus of a heavy atom such as uranium or plutonium is split into two approximately equal parts by a neutron, charged… 
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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Implementation of Multi-Curie Production of 99mTc by Conventional Medical Cyclotrons
99mTc is currently produced by an aging fleet of nuclear reactors, which require enriched uranium and generate nuclear waste. We… 
Review
2013
Review
2013
IFMIF: overview of the validation activities
The Engineering Validation and Engineering Design Activities (EVEDA) for the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Effect of groundwater pH and ionic strength on strontium sorption in aquifer sediments: Implications for 90Sr mobility at contaminated nuclear sites
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Nuclear energy: Thorium fuel has risks
Simple chemical pathways open up proliferation possibilities for the proposed nuclear 'wonder fuel', warn Stephen F. Ashley and… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Brownian shape motion on five-dimensional potential-energy surfaces:nuclear fission-fragment mass distributions.
Although nuclear fission can be understood qualitatively as an evolution of the nuclear shape, a quantitative description has… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Uranium content in phosphate fertilizers commercially produced in Brazil.
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Deep-Earth reactor: Nuclear fission, helium, and the geomagnetic field
Geomagnetic field reversals and changes in intensity are understandable from an energy standpoint as natural consequences of… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
New horizons for therapy based on the boron neutron capture reaction.
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Induced nuclear fission viewed as a diffusion process: Transients
Induced nuclear fission is viewed as a diffusion process of the fission degree of freedom over the fission barrier. We describe… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Theory of charge dispersion in nuclear fission
For the distribution of nuclear charge in fission, a number of empirical hypotheses such as that of equal charge distribution… 
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