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Actinide Fission

Actinide Fission is a nuclear fission process in which heavy actinide nuclei, such as uranium or plutonium, undergo radioactive decay by splitting into lighter nuclei upon neutron absorption, distinguishing it from fission processes involving non-actinide heavy elements.

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The double-humped fission barrier

S. Bjørnholm, J. E. Lynn · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1980 · 724 citations

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New Type of Asymmetric Fission in Proton-Rich Nuclei

A. N. Andreyev, J. Elseviers, M. Huyse et al. · Physical Review Letters · 2010 · 246 citations · Full text

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Impact of pear-shaped fission fragments on mass-asymmetric fission in actinides

Guillaume Scamps, C. Simenel · Nature · 2018 · 218 citations

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Fission of doubly even actinide nuclei induced by direct reactions

B. B. Back, Ole Hansen, H. C. Britt et al. · Physical Review C · 1974 · 182 citations

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Multidimensionally-constrained relativistic mean-field models and potential-energy surfaces of actinide nuclei

Bing-Nan Lu, Jie Zhao, En-Guang Zhao et al. · Physical Review C · 2014 · 168 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. PM
    P. Möller

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States

    5 publications · 434 citations

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  2. TI
    Takatoshi Ichikawa

    Kyoto University, Japan

    4 publications · 386 citations

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  3. BS
    B. S. Bhandari

    University of Benghazi, Libya

    4 publications · 80 citations

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  4. AN
    A. N. Andreyev

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    4 publications · 380 citations

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  5. HN
    H. Naik

    Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India

    4 publications · 156 citations

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Institutions

215

  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    14 h-index

    46 publications

    3.9K citations

  2. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

    Paris, France

    13 h-index

    60 publications

    1.9K citations

  3. Japan Atomic Energy Agency

    Tōkai Mura, Japan

    12 h-index

    47 publications

    2K citations

  4. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

    Mumbai, India

    12 h-index

    40 publications

    1.6K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    55 publications

    2.2K citations

  6. Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules

    Paris, France

    8 h-index

    43 publications

    1.8K citations

  7. Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux

    Gradignan, France

    7 h-index

    19 publications

    1K citations

  8. Kyoto University

    Kyoto, Japan

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    537 citations

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  1. Physical Review C

    PRC · 28 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. Nuclear Physics A

    13 publications · 427 citations

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  3. Physics Letters B

    9 publications · 380 citations

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  4. Physical review. C

    PRC · 8 publications · 183 citations

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