• Hybrid nuclear fusionfission (hybrid nuclear power) is a proposed means of generating power by use of a combination of nuclear fusion and fission processes...
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    boosted fission weapon usually refers to a type of nuclear bomb that uses a small amount of fusion fuel to increase the rate, and thus yield, of a fission reaction...
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    the terms nuclear and thermonuclear, respectively. Nuclear fission separates or splits heavier atoms to form lighter atoms. Nuclear fusion combines lighter...
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    the fragments (heating the bulk material where fission takes place). Like nuclear fusion, for fission to produce energy, the total binding energy of the...
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    endothermic. The opposite is true for the reverse process, called nuclear fission. Nuclear fusion uses lighter elements, such as hydrogen and helium, which are...
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  • cheaper isotopes 233U or 239Pu in either fission breeder reactors or (much better) nuclear fusionfission hybrid reactors. These other fissiles would have...
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    Nuclear reprocessing is the chemical separation of fission products and actinides from spent nuclear fuel. Originally, reprocessing was used solely to...
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    list (link) Winterberg, Friedwart (2000). "Autocatalytic fissionfusion microexplosions for nuclear pulse propulsion". Acta Astronautica. 47 (12): 879–883...
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    fission fuel in a blanket of nuclear waste, a concept known as a fission-fusion hybrid. In these systems, the power output is enhanced by the fission...
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  • Project PACER (redirect from PACER (fusion))
    avoid damage to the walls of the cavity. Nuclear pulse propulsion Project Gnome Nuclear fusion-fission hybrid Long 1976, p. 24. L.E. Elkins; R.L. Garwin;...
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