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fission product

British

noun

a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide

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Huang: Because of her work on fission product decay.

From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2023

The population surrounding Chernobyl was not warned that iodine-131—a radioactive fission product that can enter the food chain—had contaminated milk and other locally produced agricultural products.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2016

But it is a fission product formed in nuclear reactors, and it has to be dealt with during the purification of reactor fuels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since Mn-54 is not a fission product, they concluded that it was formed when free neutrons from the explosion combined with iron or ordinary manganese, presumably in the bomb's structure.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was odd, they thought; cobalt 60 is not a fission product, and it had not been found in other radioactive material, even in samples from much closer to Ground Zero.

From Time Magazine Archive

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