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What happens from the sun's nuclear fision?
Not much to speak of. There is no significant amount of nuclear fission going on in the Sun.
What is an uncontrolled nuclear fission?
There are both controlled and uncontrolled fission reactions. The reactors in nuclear power plants and submarines make use of a controlled nuclear reaction. Nuclear weapons make use of an uncontrolled reaction.
What year did Otto Hahn invent nuclear fission?
Otto Hahn did not "invent" nuclear fission. Nuclear fission is a natural process that has been going on for billions of years. He didn't ... exactly ... "discover" it either. What he did do was show that earlier work was incorrect, and determine that certain products of the fission of uranium were not "neighboring" elements as was generally thought at the time, but isotopes of much lighter elements. There wasn't really a specific year he did this, the work was done throughout the late 1930s.
How is nuclear fission done?
When a neutron is fired at a U235 atom, it splits the atom in two forming two very unstable forms of krypton and barium: Kr92 and Ba141. While this process is going on, which is called nuclear fission, enormous amounts of energy and three more neutrons are released. Then these three other neutrons hit more waiting U235 atoms, and this process repeats. Uses: This can be used for many things, it can be harnessed for energy, or packed into a bomb for warfare. No matter what it is being used for, we are still imagining the possibilities of nuclear fission.
Why are uranium rods hot?
The rods themselves are not hot. They heat up in an operating nuclear reactor because of the fission going on inside them. When used up and removed from the reactor they remain hot for a period of time due to radioactive decay of the remaining fission products, so they are stored in a spent rod cooling pond until enough fission products decay that they can stay cool and can be safely transported to a waste repository or reprocessing facility.
What nuclear process is going on in the sun and what gas is being made?
the nuclear process that is going on in the sun is called nuclear fission, which is the splitting of atoms.
What happens from the sun's nuclear fision?
Not much to speak of. There is no significant amount of nuclear fission going on in the Sun.
A sphere of matter held together by its own gravitational field and generating nuclear fission reactions in its interior?
Sounds like a star, but it is nuclear fusion there, not fission A planet is held together by its gravitational field and there is nuclear FISSION going on inside it producing geothermal heat.
What reaction keeps going on its own once it starts?
This type of reaction happens when nuclear fission occurs.
What is an uncontrolled nuclear fission?
There are both controlled and uncontrolled fission reactions. The reactors in nuclear power plants and submarines make use of a controlled nuclear reaction. Nuclear weapons make use of an uncontrolled reaction.
What year did Otto Hahn invent nuclear fission?
Otto Hahn did not "invent" nuclear fission. Nuclear fission is a natural process that has been going on for billions of years. He didn't ... exactly ... "discover" it either. What he did do was show that earlier work was incorrect, and determine that certain products of the fission of uranium were not "neighboring" elements as was generally thought at the time, but isotopes of much lighter elements. There wasn't really a specific year he did this, the work was done throughout the late 1930s.
How is energy ptoduced by the sun?
I believe that it is the fission (not fusion) of particles. Essentially it is like nuclear bombs going off but with much more energy.
Does the mass of water change going from a liquid to a solid?
No. Mass never changes, except during nuclear fission and fusion.
How does the sun produce enagy?
The energy produced in the sun is liberated in the form of heat and light. The reaction going on in the sun is known as Nuclear Fusion and Nuclear Fission. Both processes take place simultaneously.
What is it called when an atom loses or gains a proton?
This is nuclear physics. When an atom gains a proton it is 'fusion'. When an atom loses a proton it is 'fission'. e.g. Using heavy hydrogen (deuterium) [2/1]H + [2/1] = [4/2]He This is very simple nuclear fusion, which is going on in the Sun. Using Uranium - 236 This disintegrates into plutonium and a neutron ; this is nuclear fission and goes on into nuclear reactors (in power stations), on Earth or Atom Bombs.
Why geothermal energy and nuclear energy different in respect?
Geothermal energy comes from the Earth's core. As we can't examine this directly, scientists are uncertain just what produces this energy. Some will come from radioactive decay, and some is the residue from when the Earth was formed as a lump of hot matter, from some unknown supernova. As far as we know there is no nuclear fission process going on in the core, though I don't see why this should be discounted. Nuclear energy as produced by man is definitely a process of nuclear fission, so this is the difference.
How long will nuclear energy be on earth?
nuclear power is going to be around for much longer, more fission reactors will be built to compensate in the increase in energy usage and more research is being done to make fusion energy which will replace fission reactors(this is quite a while yet before fusion reactors can be used to produce use usable energy for long periods of time).
