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The new approach to the interpretation of the process of spontaneous fission of heavy nuclei is suggested. It is based on nuclear physics data which are obtained in heavy ion collisions. The process of spontaneous fission consists of three sequential stages: clusterization of the valent nucleons of a heavy nucleus into a light nucleus-cluster, which leads to the formation of a dinuclear system; evolution of the dinuclear system which proceeds by nucleon transfer from the heavy to light nucleus and decay of the dinuclear system from the equilibrium configuration into two fragments.
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Volkov, V.V., Cherepanov, E.A. & Kalandarov, S.A. Interpretation of the mechanism of spontaneous fission of heavy nuclei in the framework of dinuclear system conception. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 13, 729–736 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477116060108
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