In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

A hands-on workshop at Idaho State University is helping train professionals to safely handle the fuels that will power the next generation of nuclear reactors.

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Split Fiction is the newest game coming from Hazelight Studios, the minds behind the revolutionary co-op title It Takes Two and it's releasing in a few weeks! That's right, after making the go-to ...

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

Meanwhile, fission splits a heavy element (with a high atomic mass number) into fragments. In both cases, energy is freed because the mass of the remaining nucleus is smaller than the mass of the ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford accomplished. Donald Trump angered New Zealanders ...

However, this too is a little more complicated, as the uranium atom was first split in 1938 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in December 1938, in Germany. It seems that some New ...

Among other false and misleading claims in US President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed social media posts by New Zealanders, ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in US president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. Trump’s ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the subatomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.