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The reactors will need an 84-day maintenance period every two years, bringing their capacity factor to 88 percent, or at par with nuclear fission power plants to begin with.
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Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
Publication of the initial discovery of chemists Glenn Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph Kennedy and Edwin McMillan was withdrawn after an isotope, Pu-239, was found to undergo nuclear fission to release energy that could fuel the bomb.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Key focus areas for the program include biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, space exploration, quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
Instead, encourage nuclear fission power.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
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Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
Publication of the initial discovery of chemists Glenn Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph Kennedy and Edwin McMillan was withdrawn after an isotope, Pu-239, was found to undergo nuclear fission to release energy that could fuel the bomb.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Key focus areas for the program include biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, space exploration, quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
Instead, encourage nuclear fission power.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for nuclear fission
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“Nuclear fission.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear%20fission. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.
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