By the end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible. When slowed down and controlled in a "uranium machine" (nuclear ...

undergo a reaction called nuclear fission which creates the heat. A diagram showing how a nuclear reactor is used to create steam that in turn powers turbines in order to generate electricity.

Both fusion and fission reactions shift the size of the reactant nuclei towards higher bounded nuclei. Does Fusion produce radioactive nuclear waste the same way fission does? Nuclear fission power ...

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor’ brings to ... solid pellet like in most reactors today? Aircraft Reactor Experiment. General diagram. (Source: ORNL) Even though many newly licensed ...