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Who First Split The Uranium Atom?

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Who First Split The Uranium Atom? It was two British physicists, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton Who was responsible for splitting the atom? There are few discoveries in science that can be said to have changed the world but one must surely be the ‘splitting of the atom’ by Ernest Rutherford in Manchester. Rutherford was

What Happens When A Neutron Hits A Control Rod?

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What Happens When A Neutron Hits A Control Rod? If the neutron hits another nucleus, the reaction continues. … If the nucleus hits a control rod it is absorbed and no further reaction takes place. 9) Compare the chain reaction that occurs when the control rods are inserted further into the reactor versus when they