DOE Science Showcase - Fission Theory

A predictive theory of nuclear fission has eluded physicists since 1939. Because understanding the fission process is crucial for many areas of scientific research, including particle systems, the development of carbon-free energy and to national security, much work continues at the Department of Energy (DOE) to understand fission’s inherent complexity. Today, scientists are performing new experiments and using both microscopic and macroscopic-microscopic models of fission to help them in this quest. Read more about remarkable advances in the Department’s fission theory research In the OSTI Collections: Fission Theory by Dr. William Watson, Physicist, OSTI staff. 

Image Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Additional Links of Interest

• Office of Nuclear Energy, DOE
• Nuclear Physics, DOE Office of Science
• The History of Nuclear Energy, Energy.gov
• Finding functionals for fission, Argonne National Laboratory
• Fifty years of nuclear fission: Nuclear data and measurements series, SciTech Connect
• Improvements of Nuclear Data and Its Uncertainties by Theoretical Modeling. SciTech Connect
• Recent advances in nuclear fission theory: pre- and post-scission physics, SciTech Connect
• Neutron-Induced Fission Cross Section Measurements for Uranium Isotopes and Other Actinides at LANSCE, SciTech Connect
• Five Years of Building the Next Generation of Reactors, Energy.gov
• Fission theory science research from the National Library of Energy^Beta
• Fission theory science research from U.S. Agencies, Science.gov
• Fission theory science research from International Science Agencies, WorldWideScience.org

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