"atomic fission" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a scientific term used to describe the process of a nucleus being split into two smaller parts. For example: "In the process of atomic fission, neutrons bombard a heavy nucleus, causing it to split into two or more lighter nuclei."
In June the Office of Censorship asked newspapers and broadcasters to avoid discussing "atom smashing, atomic energy, atomic fission, atomic splitting, or any of their equivalents.
In a typically gnomic notebook entry, Benjamin wrote, "This work -- comparable to the method of atomic fission, which liberates energies bound up within the atom -- is supposed to liberate the enormous energies of history that are slumbering in the 'once upon a time' of classic historical narrative".
Lise Meitner helped to discover atomic fission.
Nuclear energy is produced by atomic fission.
When atomic fission was discovered, he urged that there should be no publication of the fact.
Some experts have suggested the activity was similar to a 2013 test involving a less-powerful atomic fission device.
The science of atomic radiation, atomic change, and nuclear fission was developed from 1895 to 1945, much of it in the last six of those years.
Until the human species stepped in, there was no appreciable release of atomic energy from nuclear fission or fusion on earth.
It also has major federal laboratories more within a 100-mile radius than any other city on this list including Los Alamos Laboratory, the birthplace of nuclear fission and the atomic bomb, and Sandia National Laboratories, a leading solar energy research center.
Tells about the early history of the atomic bomb: the discovery of nuclear fission, which occurred just before World War II.
Bethe's work at Los Alamos included calculating the critical mass and efficiency of uranium-235 and the multiplication of nuclear fission in an exploding atomic bomb.
