Fission sees the nucleus of unstable elements like uranium and plutonium split to ... Regardless of who was first to split the atom, the work of Rutherford, Walton, Cockcroft, Oppenheimer, Fermi ...

Uranium is a tricky element. As it comes from the mines, it contains only .7% of the active isotope U-235, whose atoms “fission” (split in two) with a big release of energy. Nearly all the ...

As each uranium atom breaks apart, it shoots out neutrons that can go on to split other atoms. But the neutrons are much more likely to trigger new fission events if they are slowed down.

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was not an American.

When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ripple of irritation ...

Uranium miner Paladin Energy on Monday announced that its Canadian subsidiary, Fission Uranium, had signed a mutual benefits ...

Uranium is used to power the process of nuclear fission. During nuclear fission, an unstable uranium atom is split in half, which releases a large amount of energy. Clean burning and effective ...