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Often called the holy grail of clean energy, nuclear fusion creates four times more energy per kilogram of fuel than traditional nuclear fission and 4 million times more than burning coal, with no greenhouse gasses or long-term radioactive waste.
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Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2025
With small nuclear fission reactors — and perhaps fusion power plants — Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Callisto, Saturn's moon Titan, Neptune's moon Triton and the whole Kuiper Belt may come into range.
—Dave S. Brody, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Her colleague Otto Hahn won a Nobel Prize in 1944 for the discovery of nuclear fission.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
That is reflected in the growth of public and private investments in nuclear fission and fusion technologies.
—Daniel Yergin, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
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Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2025
With small nuclear fission reactors — and perhaps fusion power plants — Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Callisto, Saturn's moon Titan, Neptune's moon Triton and the whole Kuiper Belt may come into range.
—Dave S. Brody, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Her colleague Otto Hahn won a Nobel Prize in 1944 for the discovery of nuclear fission.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
That is reflected in the growth of public and private investments in nuclear fission and fusion technologies.
—Daniel Yergin, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Nuclear fission.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear%20fission. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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