Photofission
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title:
Photofission
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Photofission is a process in which a nucleus, after absorbing a gamma ray, undergoes nuclear fission and splits into two or more fragments. The reaction was discovered in 1940 by a small team of engineers and scientists operating the Westinghouse Atom Smasher at the company's Research Laboratories in Forest Hills, Pennsylvania. They used a 5 MeV proton beam to bombard fluorine and generate high-energy photons, which then irradiated samples of uranium and thorium. Gamma radiation of modest energi
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Fission of a nucleus via absorption of a gamma ray
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photofission
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2024-04-12T07:55:01Z
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