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In nuclear fission how does the loss in mass affect the amount of energy given off?
They are directly related through equation E = mc2. In each fission the nucleus loses a little mass and releases an equivalent amount of energy.
Do nuclear gases affect global warming?
Nuclear reactions do not produce gases, except for some of the fission products which are gaseous, like xenon, but these are contained securely within the fuel rods and would only be released in the event of a fuel melt down. So nuclear power does not produce greenhouse gases.
What personal factors can affect your choice of physical activites?
HOW MUCH MODERATE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SHOULD YOU HAVE PER DAY ? alot
How did nuclear warfare affect the cold war?
How did nuclear warfare affect the cold war?
How are atoms affected by nuclear radiation?
Nuclear radiation can affect atoms in a couple of different ways. It commonly makes them hotter. But also, when the radiation includes neutrons, they can be captured by the atoms around. This can cause those atoms to do a number of things, including:Undergoing fission, often releasing more neutronsAbsorbing the neutronundergoing decay other than fission (even if the atom is not radioactive)bouncing the neutron off, and getting hot in the processIf the atom absorbs the neutron, its mass number changes, making it a different isotope. This often makes it a radioactive isotope, so it would decay at some later time.The fact that certain atoms will undergo fission when they are struck by a neutron is what causes nuclear chain reactions used in nuclear power plants.Read more: How_does_nuclear_radiation_affect_atoms
How does lunar activity affect people with temporal lobe epilepsy?
Lunar activity does not affect people with epilepsy.
What errors could affect a science activity?
to affect a science activity you can drop it and it would lower the mass
Describe the electron behavior in nuclear fission?
Nuclear fission concerns the behaviour of the nucleus, the protons and neutrons in it and their binding energy. The electrons don't affect the fission, but they get shared out between the two fission fragments.
How do stimulants and depressants affect nerve activity?
stimulants increase activity and depressants decrease activity.
Does nuclear energy take place at high temperatures?
Your question expresses a significant bit of conceptual confusion. Perhaps I can clear up some of this confusion and at the same time answer your question.What we call temperature is simply the manifestation of kinetic energy at the level of the atom (i.e. slow moving atoms = low temperature, fast moving atoms = high temperature). What we call nuclear energy is simply an excess in the nuclear binding energy, which is the energy binding the protons and neutrons together inside the nucleus and is a manifestation of the strong nuclear force and to a lesser extent the weak nuclear force. This movement of atoms has no affect at all on whether there is or is not excess nuclear energy inside atomic nuclei or if that excess nuclear energy is being released or even can be released. Those nuclei having the least nuclear binding energy are the nuclei of the elements from iron through lead, both the elements lighter than iron and the elements heavier than lead have more nuclear binding energy (which can be considered to be excess nuclear binding energy that could potentially be released).There are three processes that can release excess nuclear energy: radioactive decay, nuclear fission, and nuclear fusion. All of these processes transform nuclear energy to kinetic energy at the level of the atom (i.e. temperature aka heat), and thereby convert a small amount of the mass of the atom into energy. Of these three both radioactive decay and nuclear fission can take place at any temperature, even those so cold as to approach absolute zero. Neither radioactive decay nor nuclear fission takes place any faster or slower with a change in temperature. Nuclear fusion though can only take place at very high temperatures (and pressures) as the nuclei must be very close together and moving fast enough to be able to collide and fuse, despite the strong electrostatic repulsion due to both nuclei involved being positively charged. But this is a threshold temperature, even at high temperatures just below the threshold no nuclear fusion can take place at all and once above the threshold and nuclear fusion begins, raising the temperature further has very little affect on the rate at which that nuclear fusion takes place.Nuclear reactors operate using the process of nuclear fission and generate heat by both nuclear fission and radioactive decay. We are not yet able to extract nuclear energy in a controlled manner using the process of nuclear fusion (only explosive release of nuclear energy has ever been successfully done using the process of nuclear fusion).
How does fog affect nuclear radiation?
insignificantly.
How long does it take a nuclear reactor to cool?
The time it takes to cool a nuclear reactor down varies. If a reactor has been running at nearly full power and is shut down, it takes several days to even weeks to cool it down. The size of the reactor and the "aggressiveness" of a cooling system will affect the cooldown time as well as the power levels at which the reactor was operating at before shutdown. If a reactor has been operating for some time at high power and is shut down, fission in the core stops (as it does in any shutdown). But fission products in the core are at a high level because the reactor was operating at high power. These fission products will continue to decay for some time. The decaying fission products will be creating a lot of residual heat for this extended period, too.
