How to Use nuclear fission in a Sentence

nuclear fission

noun
  • That, to us, says buckle up and get comfortable with nuclear fission.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 17 May 2025
  • Meitner, the best known of the four, helped discover nuclear fission.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • And unlike nuclear fission, there is no atomic waste involved.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 6 May 2025
  • There's also the issue that nuclear fission is a highly toxic process.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Each has the tell-tale isotopic fingerprints that could only be made by sustained nuclear fission.
    — New Atlas, 8 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • An elderly New York couple next to us is talking about nuclear fission.
    — Vulture, 26 Oct. 2023
  • It is man made and produced by nuclear fission, according to the FDA.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • That leaves nuclear fission and radioisotope power as the only viable options for deep-space missions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2025
  • That involves blocking the fuel rods in the reactor, which stops the nuclear fission reaction.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Less energy is produced with nuclear fission, and the resulting waste is much more radioactive.
    — Sara Lang, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2023
  • In the ’60s, obviously, there were narratives that had to do with fear over nuclear fission and the dangers of the bomb.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • This allows for more nuclear fission and generates more energy.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The nuclear fission reactors like what Duffy is talking about are far more complicated.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The energy released by the nuclear fission process is then used to heat water into steam, which is then used to spin a turbine and create energy.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024
  • These nuclear fission reactors are less than a third of the size and power output of conventional reactors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The nuclear fission reactors Duffy is talking about are far more complicated.
    — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • That is reflected in the growth of public and private investments in nuclear fission and fusion technologies.
    — Daniel Yergin, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Each one of these tiny particles carries more than fifty million times the energy released by uranium during nuclear fission.
    — Matt Von Hippel, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Fusion, the same process which powers the sun, is the opposition of nuclear fission, which is the process of splitting an atom to generate energy.
    — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • This process releases a staggering amount of energy—many times more than achieved during nuclear fission—but at the same time produces no harmful byproducts.
    — Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Like a conventional nuclear fission power plant that splits atoms, a fusion plant would not burn fossil fuels and would not produce greenhouse-gas emissions.
    — Henry Fountain New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Hamilton’s team will investigate how neutrons move around and affect the chain reaction of nuclear fission, as well as how heat from fission moves through the system.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Just about any of them can be made during nuclear fission by placing a dedicated target material in the reactor core.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This has been political nuclear fission.
    — ABC News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Compared with renewable sources of energy like solar and wind, nuclear fission reactors require a fraction of the land.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Unlike its counterpart, nuclear fission, fusion energy does not produce large amounts of radioactive waste that need to be stored safely.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 June 2026
  • After starting the year down around $20, the nuclear fission power company has surged over 270% this year.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • First, it is generated at a power plant using coal, natural gas, nuclear fission, or renewables.
    — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026

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