"uranium fission" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it any time you need to refer to the process of splitting uranium atoms, which releases energy. For example: "Uranium fission is an important component of the nuclear energy production process."
He accepted a position at Columbia, where he began work on uranium fission.
In 1942 they moved to Chicago where he continued uranium fission experiments at Chicago U.
They will also break up the elements heavier than uranium into products similar to those from uranium fission.
BOHR -- But then I asked you if you actually thought that uranium fission could be used for the construction of weapons.
That which will be used to moderate uranium fission in a reactor under construction nearby, which is being visited by IAEA inspectors.
with Exotic Beams, Vol. II, Springer (2006) facility for the production of neutron-rich radioactive nuclei by uranium fission.
While trying to figure out how the reactor worked, physicist Alex Meshik and colleagues at Washington University in St .Louis, Missouri, discovered a strange pattern of xenon isotopes--byproducts of uranium fission--trapped in aluminum phosphate minerals around the reactor.
As uranium undergoes fission, it produces some fission products that absorb neutrons and tend to slow down the nuclear reaction.
Within weeks of his arrival, news that uranium could fission astounded the physics community.
A third explosion happened at reactor No 2, leading many to speculate that the vital containment vessel, holding uranium undergoing fission, may have been breached.
For really heavy elements, such as uranium, such fission happens spontaneously.In theory, making elements up to iron should not be hard.
