In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to ...

After President Trump's claim, a mayor in New Zealand pointed out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was ...

During nuclear fission, an unstable uranium atom is split in half, which releases a large amount of energy. Clean burning and effective, it takes only a small amount of uranium to create a large ...

Uranium; radiation detectors ... Otto Hahn’s name might not be familiar, but it should be. In splitting the atom, he unwittingly and single-handedly unlocked one of the most powerful forces ...

Heavy water can help keep such a chain reaction going. As each uranium atom breaks apart, it shoots out neutrons that can go on to split other atoms. But the neutrons are much more likely to ...

And there are certain kinds of atom - like this stuff, uranium - which are unstable and can split. When they do, they release radiation and heat. The radiation is a problem because it can make ...

capturing a neutron from another uranium atom that has split, and emitting a beta particle to transmute it to neptunium - but this only happens in the tiniest quantities. There's much more neptunium ...