Review on the progress in nuclear fission

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An overview is given on some of the main advances in experimental methods, experimental results and theoretical models and ideas of the last years in the field of nuclear fission.

• New experimental approaches extended the availability of fissioning systems considerably and provided a full identification of all fission products in A and Z for the first time.
• In particular, the transition from symmetric to asymmetric fission around 226Th and some unexpected structure in the mass distributions in the fission of systems around Z = 80 to 84 as well as an extended systematics of the odd-even effect in fission fragment Z distributions have been measured [A.
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