NUCLEAR FISSION MASSIVE NUCLEUS APART YIELD ENERGY SUM OF THE MASSES THE FRAGMENTS LESS THAN THE MASS URANIUM EQUAL TO GREATER THAN IRON THE PEAK BINDING ENERGY NUCLEAR PARTICLES BE MORE BOUND DECREASE COMES FORM OF ENERGY EINSTEIN EQUATION ELEMENTS LIGHTER FUSION FISSION TRIGGERED ABSORPTION SLOW NEUTRON THERMAL FISSIONABLE ISOTOPES SLOW NEUTRONS CONCEPTS HYPERPHYSICS NAVE GO BACK REMARKABLE PHENOMENA CAPTURED RENDERING UNSTABLE TOWARD FAST NEUTRON MUST DOWN MODERATION INCREASE CAPTURE PROBABILITY EVENT TIMES THE ENERGY RELEASE CALCULATION URANIUM FUEL NATURAL URANIUM FISSIONABLE ISOTOPE TRACE QUANTITY SUFFICIENT PRODUCE CRITICAL CHAIN REACTION STYLE CANADIAN CANDU REACTORS THE FUEL URANIUM OXIDE PURIFIED RICH YELLOW COLOR ISOTOPE ENRICHMENT NECESSITY TAKES SUPPLY NEEDS AMERICAN INDEX NATURALLY BOMBARDMENT USED TO BREEDING SPONTANEOUS FISSION USEFUL NUCLEAR FUEL NUCLEAR REACTORS WASHINGTON PLANT PRODUCTION CONCEIVABLY THE ONLY UNDERGO HISTORY OF GERMAN PHYSICISTS OTTO HAHN FRITZ STRASSMAN ATTEMPTED CREATE TRANSURANIC ELEMENTS BOMBARDING RATHER HEAVY ELEMENTS UNIDENTIFIED FINALLY IDENTIFIED PUBLISH FINDING PUBLISHED RESULTS ATTENTION LISE MEITNER PHYSICIST HAHN INVASION FORCED SWEDEN OTTO FRISCH WORK BARIUM EXPERIMENTS FRISCH MEITNER AMOUNT MADE POSSIBLE CHAIN UNPRECEDENTED