fission energy
21Fission fragment reactor — Similar to how the fission fragment rocket produces thrust, a fission fragment reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates electricity by decelerating an ion beam of fission byproducts instead of using nuclear reactions to generate heat. By doing …
22Energy — This article is about the scalar physical quantity. For other uses, see Energy (disambiguation). Energetic redirects here. For other uses, see Energetic (disambiguation) …
23Energy policy of the European Union — European Union This article is part of the series: Politics and government of the European Union …
24energy — /en euhr jee/, n., pl. energies. 1. the capacity for vigorous activity; available power: I eat chocolate to get quick energy. 2. an adequate or abundant amount of such power: I seem to have no energy these days. 3. Often, energies. a feeling of… …
25Energy returned on energy invested — Contents 1 Non manmade energy inputs 2 Relationship to net energy gain 3 The economic influence of EROEI …
26fission — /fish euhn/, n. 1. the act of cleaving or splitting into parts. 2. Also called nuclear fission. Physics. the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into nuclei of lighter atoms, accompanied by the release of energy. Cf. fusion (def. 4). 3. Biol. the …
27fission — 1. The act of splitting, e.g., amitotic division of a cell or its nucleus. 2. Splitting of the nucleus of an atom. [L. fissio, a cleaving, fr. findo, pp. fissus, to cleave] binary f. simple f. in which the two new cells are approximately equal in …
28fission — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cleavage, scission, disjunction; nuclear fission, splitting the atom, atom smashing. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. splitting, cleavage, parting; see division 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY… …
29fission — I. noun Etymology: Latin fission , fissio, from findere to split more at bite Date: circa 1617 1. a splitting or breaking up into parts 2. reproduction by spontaneous division of the body into two or more parts each of which grows into a complete …
30Energy content of biofuel — A Table of Energy Content and CO2 Output of Common Fuels Energy is the ability to do work. Per kilogram of mass, different substances can do different amounts of work.cite web url=http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/papers/misc/energy conv.html… …
