How to Use fission in a Sentence

fission

noun

• The singlet fission concept is not new.
  — New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026
• The internet is as much a force of social fusion as fission, if not more.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• That paper was the first to use the term fission for the splitting apart of the nucleus.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
• Fusion brings atoms together, while fission forces them apart.
  — Jeanette Beebe, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Mar. 2022
• All of today’s nuclear power comes from fission, where atoms are spit.
  — Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2025
• But this work was only meant as a proof of concept of exciton fission in a solar cell.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 11 July 2019
• For fission, the bigger the atom, the more energy is released.
  — James Conca, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• But fission creates radioactive waste that can last thousands of years.
  — Jennifer Hiller, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• The reason is that fission power exists.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
• The fission reactor starts with a heavy atom like uranium-235 and hits it with a neutron.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 10 Nov. 2020
• Inside the core, uranium atoms split in a process called fission, which releases heat.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2022
• And when the groundwater flowed right, fission reactions had taken place.
  — New Atlas, 8 Jan. 2026
• Back in the real world, most people first learned of nuclear fission as a way to destroy an entire city in the blink of an eye.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
• Using this method, a slew of interactions could be traced over and over, yielding a map of how a fission weapon might explode.
  — Coco Krumme, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
• Try to squeeze the Twinkie—that fission-fusion target—uniformly.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
• Fusion is the opposite of the fission process that powers nuclear plants.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
• This process generates more energy than fission and far less radioactive waste.
  — Don Lincoln, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• Heat from fission warms the steel casing, and water flowing through external pipes captures that heat to drive a steam turbine.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
• The neutrons, thus produced, can lead to more fission events in the nearby fuel, leading to a chain reaction.
  — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
• The first step will be to insert control rods to stop the nuclear fission chain reaction in the reactor core.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
• Yet more than 60 years into the space age, nuclear fission for spaceflight remains mostly a dream.
  — David W. Brown, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2022
• Mixed and even negative opinions can serve as control rods for the fission of overly pious engrossment.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• All current nuclear power plants use fission, which involves splitting atoms.
  — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 7 July 2026
• So Way and Wigner crunched a bunch of numbers and came up with a way to generalize for all fission products.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023
• The public in western democracies has turned against nuclear fission.
  — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• New Scientist reports that experts say the cost per megawatt of this plant is five times what a traditional fission plant costs.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2020
• Scramming a reactor cuts its fission rate to almost zero in a very short time, though residual heat can still cause a disaster.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2018
• The team's approach centers on a phenomenon called singlet fission.
  — New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026
• As fission reactions occur, a large amount of heat is generated, which the water absorbs to keep the fuel rods cool.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
• And unlike fission, fusion produces trace amounts of radioactive material that cannot be weaponized.
  — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021