Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, killing several Iranian nuclear scientists. The facilities are heavily fortified and largely underground, and there are conflicting reports of how much damage has been done ...

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In a mounting crisis of tensions, US aircraft have bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities, including Fordow – a uranium ...

While any weapons using nuclear reactions involve, by definition, ... such as refined uranium or plutonium, a fission chain ... that leftover mass turns into energy, which fuels the nuclear explosion.

Fission weapons split atoms of unstable heavy elements like uranium by firing neutrons into them. Each split atom releases more neutrons and a tremendous amount of energy in a runaway chain ...

When Israeli aircraft recently struck a uranium-enrichment complex in the nation, Iran could have been days away from ...

When the nucleus of a heavy atom, such as uranium or plutonium, is split into smaller parts (a process called nuclear fission), a huge amount of energy is released. This nuclear reaction is the ...

A five-dimensional model has successfully predicted the asymmetric fission of mercury isotopes, offering new insights into ...

Fission to Fusion. At the end of World War II, only two ingredients were in the nuclear picture. They were uranium 235 and plutonium, both of which are fissionable, i.e., the addition of a single ...

Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told CBS that Iran had a "a very vast ...

The fission method splits the atom, which generates a chain reaction of energy that heats water or gas to drive a turbine connected to an electrical generator. More than 400 nuclear reactors are ...