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Is this how nuclear fission occurs with neutron bombardment?
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[QUOTE="victorhugo, post: 5511902, member: 566644"] When neutrons are fired at atoms, if at higher speeds they will behave as waves, wander through and scatter, (which can produce something similar to x-ray diffraction images), but if slowed to the right "thermal energy" speed, they will be captured by (say) U-235, making the U atom unstable, causing it to break up into 2 daughter nuclei + neutrons + gamma radiation I'd appreciate further explanation and a correction of any of my statements that are wrong and/or incomplete :) [/QUOTE]
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Is this how nuclear fission occurs with neutron bombardment?
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