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Can carbon be used in nuclear fission?

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Q: Can carbon be used in nuclear fission?
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If carbon were used as nuclear fuel it would be best?

Carbon cannot be used as a nuclear fuel, either for fission or fusion.


Where has nuclear fission been used?

Nuclear fission has been used in nuclear bombs and is currently being used in every nuclear power plant on the earth.


How can nuclear fission be used?

In general, physicists, and specifically nuclear physicists, use nuclear fission in experiments.


What element is used in nuclear fission and is radioactive but is not uranium?

We can use plutonium in nuclear fission devices.


Is Nuclear fission is used in nuclear power plants?

Yes


Why nuclear fission better?

Nuclear fission is now commercially available in nuclear fission reactors since the fifties of last century. Nuclear Fusion is still under R&D. Nuclear fission reactors are clean energy source.


How is heat of Nuclear fission used?

The heat from nuclear fission is what generates electricity. Water is heated in a nuclear reactor, which then generates steam which is used to power electrical generators.


Is nuclear fission only used to create atomic bombs?

No, nuclear fission operates all nuclear reactors. If they are power plant reactors it is used to generate electricity.


Can nuclear fission be used anywhere in the world?

yes on condition of the availability of the necessary nuclear fission device (nuclear reactors or critical assemblies).


How nuclear technologies produce enermouse amount of energy?

Nuclear fission produces energy 2.5 million times that of carbon of same mass. Nuclear fusion produces energy 400 times that of nuclear fission of same mass.


Where do you get nuclear fission?

You get nuclear fission in:nuclear fission reactorsatomic fission bombs


What is one statement about nuclear energy that is not true?

It is not true that: Carbon dioxide is produced during nuclear reactor operation or during nuclear fission.