a physics professor at UW, has conducted the first fully microscopic, quantum many-body simulation of a nucleus's neck rupture to produce the most accurate description yet of its fission dynamics.

In this video, Jonny Nelson introduces an animated explanation of fission and fusion. The nuclei of atoms contain a large amount of energy. Releasing this energy could free the world from having ...

Its two sources of fuel, hydrogen and lithium, are widely available in many parts of the Earth. What’s the difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion? Both are nuclear processes, in that ...

Each fission reaction releases a huge amount of ... with most of the attention focused on understanding the plasma physics required to confine and heat a plasma to thermonuclear temperatures ...

Hahn published the results in January 1939 and Meitner and Frisch published the explanation a month later, introducing the term "nuclear fission." Using Bohr's liquid drop model of the nucleus ...