If you hit it with a neutron, it's going to fission and split into two pieces, two fission products.

Uranium 233, if you hit it with a neutron it will fission.

Now I want you to hit it with a neutron and see if it will fission.

Well, lots of blue, because when you hit these dudes with neutron, you want them fission.

But one third of the time it's just going to eat the neutron in thermal fission.

Now what these colors mean is the red means that it's going to absorb the neutron and the blue means that it's going to absorb the neutron and fission.

On the other hand, you can fission it and then those fission products will decay very rapidly and you also get an energy release and a neutron release, both of which are good.

Fission.

Neutron

Neutron

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A fast neutron reactor or simply a fast reactor is a category of nuclear reactor in which the fission chain reaction is sustained by fast neutrons.

That's what happens when the uranium absorbs the neutron and doesn't fission, and turns into plutonium, americium and curium and few other, most of it is plutonium.

It did fission.

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Fission begins instantly.

This is the smaller fission product and this is the larger fission product because each fission generates two of them.

Fission is going on.

We have a neutron.

One is the actual fission products that's what happens when you fission the stuff.

Because I think it'll fission.

Ninety percent of that'll fission.

Thorium did absorb the neutron.

Fission product gasses will accumulate here.

These have included passive gamma ray spectrometry, passive and active neutron coincidence counting and neutron multiplicity measurements.

1932 James Chadwick discovers the neutron.

So the we have the neutron.

And a neutron has no charge.

On the other hand, in fast fission, look at that, wow, was going to fission almost all the time.

I think it'll fission just like uranium 235.

So without the water the fission reaction stops.

Large uranium reserves for nuclear fission still exist.

Radio, television, automobile, airplane, atomic fission, jet propulsion.

The neutron count (neutron number) may then be derived by subtracting the number of protons (atomic number) from the mass number.

Chryssa Kouveliotou The Neutron Star Black Hole Connection .

Both fission and fusion produce a lot of energy.

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Nuclear energy, fission, is really bad idea for bombs.

Let's talk a bit about what nuclear fission is.

First into U233, and then into energy through fission.

Coming off discovering plutonium he thought, I wonder if we can hit thorium with a neutron and turn it into something. You got to remember, fission had been discovered three years earlier, so they were still in the very beginnings.

Global Fission The Battle Over Nuclear Power , Oxford University Press.

Let's talk a little bit about how nuclear fission works.

But if you hit the thorium with a neutron, the thorium will absorb the neutron and it will turn from thorium 232 into thorium 233.