noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nuclear fission
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
nuclear
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In the mid-1950's nuclear fission had still to be turned into a commercial power source.
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An obvious and technically achievable alternative to fossil fuel combustion is nuclear fission .
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The most important are nuclear fission , wind, wave and tidal energy sources and solar energy by direct conversion and biomass.
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Containing nuclear waste Anti-nuclear campaigners sometimes claim that nuclear fission and its dangerous products are a purely manmade phenomenon.
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Start to phase out nuclear fission power stations, which are prohibitively expensive and potentially hazardous.
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Perhaps this is a reflection of the problems that have plagued nuclear fission .
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Plutonium is a unique and inevitable by-product of nuclear fission .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both radioactive fission products and induced radioactivity in structural materials contribute to the problem of radioactive waste.
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Controlled fusion has fewer obvious negative aspects than fission .
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In the mid-1950's nuclear fission had still to be turned into a commercial power source.
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Some of the fission fragments are themselves radioactive.
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Start to phase out nuclear fission power stations, which are prohibitively expensive and potentially hazardous.
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The isotope U-235 is unstable, decaying by a process called spontaneous fission .
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They get electrical power from fission rods, and then they throw the fission rods into the briny sea.