{"id":198217,"date":"2024-10-24T04:25:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T09:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/tracking-down-nuclear-fissions-elusive-scission-neutron-with-a-supercomputer"},"modified":"2024-10-24T04:25:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T09:25:33","slug":"tracking-down-nuclear-fissions-elusive-scission-neutron-with-a-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/tracking-down-nuclear-fissions-elusive-scission-neutron-with-a-supercomputer","title":{"rendered":"Tracking down nuclear fission\u2019s elusive scission neutron with a supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tracking-down-nuclear-fissions-elusive-scission-neutron-with-a-supercomputer3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear fission\u2014when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy\u2014may seem like a process that is fully understood. First discovered in 1939 and thoroughly studied ever since, fission is a constant factor in modern life, used in everything from nuclear medicine to power-generating nuclear reactors. However, it is a force of nature that still contains mysteries yet to be solved.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle, or UW, and Los Alamos National Laboratory have used the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to answer one of fission\u2019s biggest questions: What exactly happens during the nucleus\u2019s \u201cneck rupture\u201d as it splits in two?<\/p>\n<p>The resulting paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.132.242501\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear fission\u2014when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy\u2014may seem like a process that is fully understood. First discovered in 1939 and thoroughly studied ever since, fission is a constant factor in modern life, used in everything from nuclear medicine to power-generating nuclear reactors. However, it is a force of nature that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,873,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nuclear-energy","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}