Fussion And Fission Reaction


 
 
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Fussion And Fission Reaction

Fission: Fission is the splitting of a large nucleus to form two or more smaller nuclei; the splitting is usually achieved by bombarding the large nucleus with neutrons. The total mass of the fission products is less than the mass of the original nucleus; the lost' mass gets converted into energy

The fission of a single uranium atom releases about 200 MeV of energy , about 177 MeV of this total is the kinetic energy of the fission products, the remainder is radiant energy in the form of gamma rays.

Fusion: Protons and neutrons can sometimes become more tightly bound to one another, if two light nuclei are combined or 'fused' together to form a single nucleus. This process is called fusion. For fusion reactions to be readily produced in large number, there must be a very high temperature. For this reason, fusion reactions are often termed as thermonuclear reactions.

Comparison of Fusion and Fission: Although a large amount of energy can be obtained by fission, an even greater amount can be obtained by fusion. The percentage of total mass that is converted into energy in both fission and fusion is small- less than one percent – but the percentage of energy produced is about seven times as greater for a fusion reaction as for a fission reaction. The fusion of two protons and two neutrons into a helium 4 nucleus, for example, would result in the "loss" of o.0303812u of mass and the release of about 28.3 MeV of energy.

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