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Key focus areas for the program include biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, space exploration, quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics.
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
Instead, encourage nuclear fission power.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
Despite the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn in December 1938 and significant achievements of other German physicists and chemists in research on the structure of the atom, the Nazis were not rushing to put that research to use.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Cesium-137 is a radioactive byproduct of nuclear fission and, while not detected in the current Aquastar shrimp lots, exposure to the substance over time can increase cancer risk and cause cellular damage.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
Instead, encourage nuclear fission power.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
Despite the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn in December 1938 and significant achievements of other German physicists and chemists in research on the structure of the atom, the Nazis were not rushing to put that research to use.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Cesium-137 is a radioactive byproduct of nuclear fission and, while not detected in the current Aquastar shrimp lots, exposure to the substance over time can increase cancer risk and cause cellular damage.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Nuclear fission.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear%20fission. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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