Fission Or Fusion
Beginning of paper
I think that right now, fission is the only way that we can get more
energy out of a nuclear reaction than we put in. First, the energy per fission
is very large. In practical units, the fission of 1 kg (2.2 lb) of uranium-235
releases 18.7 million kilowatt-hours as heat. Second, the fission proces ....
Middle of paper
.... neutron with
an initial energy of about 1 MeV will induce fission is rather low, but can be
increased by a factor of hundreds when the neutron is slowed down through a
series of elastic collisions with light nuclei such as hydrogen, deuterium, or
carbon. This fact is the basis for the design of practical energy-producing
fission reactors.
In December 1942 at the University of Chicago, the Italian physicist
Enrico Fermi succeeded in producing the first nuclear chain reaction. This was
do ....
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