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... fission produces energy . Technology cannot claim the authority of science and is therefore properly a subject of debate , not alone by experts but by the public as well . Little thought is customarily given to the possibility of ...
... fission produces energy . Technology cannot claim the authority of science and is therefore properly a subject of debate , not alone by experts but by the public as well . Little thought is customarily given to the possibility of ...
Page 208
... fission when a neutron hits them . Fertile materials are those which do not fission when a neutron hits them , but rather the neutron gets absorbed and after radioactive decay creates a new atom which is fissionable . The principal ...
... fission when a neutron hits them . Fertile materials are those which do not fission when a neutron hits them , but rather the neutron gets absorbed and after radioactive decay creates a new atom which is fissionable . The principal ...
Page 214
... fission than in the case of a thermal fission , and hence more fertile material can be converted to fissionable material . The conversion ratios for all the fast reactors under development are greater than one ( 1 ) , meaning that they ...
... fission than in the case of a thermal fission , and hence more fertile material can be converted to fissionable material . The conversion ratios for all the fast reactors under development are greater than one ( 1 ) , meaning that they ...
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