Assertion: delayed neutron | /r/CapableOf | emit as radioactive decay products
Facets:
value: with half-lives
type: OTHER
value: up to several minutes
type: TEMPORAL
value: from fission-daughters
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: On the other hand, so-called delayed neutrons emitted as radioactive decay products with half-lives up to several minutes, from fission-daughters, are very important to reactor control, because they give a characteristic "reaction" time for the total nuclear reaction to double in size, if the reaction is run in a "delayed-critical" zone which deliberately relies on these neutrons for a supercritical chain-reaction (one in which each fission cycle yields more neutrons than it absorbs).