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IN their classic paper1 discussing the theory of the fission process, Bohr and Wheeler estimated the energy release to be expected in binary, ternary and quaternary fission of the compound nucleus of uranium-239. In the binary case, for fragments of equal mass, an energy release of 200 MeV. was obtained; for three nearly equal fragments, the energy release is slightly greater, being about 210 MeV., while for division into four comparable parts it falls to 150 MeV.
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TITTERTON, E. Possibility of the Quaternary Fission of Uranium-235. Nature 170, 794 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170794a0
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