The Hive is indeed undergoing fission, as the chief surmised.
Each neutron may impact another nucleus and cause it to undergo fission.
This further underwent spontaneous fission with a half-time of about 1.3 h.
Colonies being very small, they never undergo fission to form new colonies.
An individual can undergo binary fission by splitting in half and growing into two organisms.
This solid center of agreement underwent fission in the late 1960's.
Uranium, for example, constantly undergoes spontaneous fission at a very slow rate.
It's also one of the few elements that can undergo induced fission.
One possible neutron source is californium-252 which undergoes spontaneous fission.
It was found that the final nucleus undergoes spontaneous fission.