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Enrico Fermi
What is the difference between nuclear fission and fusion?
average binding energy per nucleon as a function of the mass number potential energy as a function of elongation of a fissioning nucleus
What the fission of a uranium nucleus by a neutron looks like
Fission mass distribution dependence on the energy excitation in the fission of uranium-235 schematic illustrations of single-humped and double-humped fission barriers
How does a nuclear power plant generate electricity?
Nuclear fission and fusion
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Also Known As atomic fission • induced fission

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Enrico Fermi
average binding energy per nucleon as a function of the mass number
potential energy as a function of elongation of a fissioning nucleus
Fission
mass distribution dependence on the energy excitation in the fission of uranium-235
schematic illustrations of single-humped and double-humped fission barriers
Nuclear fission and fusion
What is the difference between nuclear fission and fusion?
What the fission of a uranium nucleus by a neutron looks like
How does a nuclear power plant generate electricity?
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Otto Hahn
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Ida Noddack
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John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler
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Lise Meitner
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