Nuclear Fission

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Nuclear fission is the process of splitting up an atom into multiple parts. This occurs spontaneously in the form of radioactive decay.

The Main Idea

Nuclear fission is the process of splitting an atom and releasing a large quantity of energy, the primary source of all nuclear energy that is created. Nuclear fission can happen naturally in the form of radioactive decay or unnaturally with the bombardment of a nucleus with neurons. Radioactive decay is very uncommon amongst most large molecules but does happen naturally for Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239, both of which are isotopes. Uranium-235 fissions when it is bombarded by a slow moving neuron that then triggers its decay. Nuclear fission is typically managed to produce a standard and controlled reaction, but when it is not managed it results in a dangerous and uncontrollable release of energy (see atomic bomb). The two substituents that form from the split atom have a mass that is about one tenth of one percent less mass than that of the original atom, this loss of mass is about ten million times larger than the mass changes that occur in chemical reactions that involve rearrangement and do not alter or affect the nucleus.

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