More about nuclear fission

Fun facts about nuclear fission

• Nucler fission splits an atomic nucleus into two nuclei
• Nuclear fission does not spontaneously react
• In order to split, the nucleus must be hit by a high speed neutron.
• Nuclear fission is a chain reaction.
• Some electricity is made by power plants controling a nuclear fission chain reaction.
• An uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction is how the atomic bomb works.
• The change in mass to energy causes the massive amounts of enrgy.

Step by step on how fission works

1. A nucleus is introduced moving at high speeds to the atomic nucleus.
2. The nucleus is split into two different but close to equal nuclei.
3. Each time a nucleus is split, it realeases a large amount of energy.
4. The neutrons will keep bombarding other nuclei, which causes the chain reaction, which release ubelievably lage amounts of energy which gives us some of our electricity.


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