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Fission gives off heat, neutrons, and fission products. Each of these things has different uses.
The heat is the primary product. It is typically used to boil water, the steam being used to power a turbine, which turns a generator to make electricity.
Neutrons can be used to turn atoms of one element into atoms of another element. For example, tritium can be manufactured by exposing hydrogen in water to neutrons. The tritium, in turn, has uses ranging from nuclear fusion to tracing flow in ecological systems.
Some of the products of fission have their own uses and are easiest obtained from materials that have been in reactor cores. An example is cesium-137, whihc is a fission product, and has uses in medicine and industry.
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How is fission used to calculate the energy required?
You don't use fission to do the actual calculation. Fission can RESULT in energy being released, though.
Can Atom bomb worked by atomic fission?
Yes. Later, the Hydrogen Bomb used fission/fusion.
What is fusion and fission related to?
Fusion and fission is related to combining (fusion) or splitting (fission) radioactive nuclei, in both cases releasing binding energy (The Strong Atomic Force). Fission is more commonly used in nuclear power plants and A-Bombs, while fusion is more commonly used in H-Bombs and in the Stars.
Is Nuclear fission is used in nuclear power plants?
Yes
Name a nuclear process in which a huge amount of energy is released and which can also be used to generate electrical energy in power stations?
The processes of fission, fusion and fission-fusion-fishion all release energy. Currently, only fission reactors are used to produce electricity.
What process is used by bacteria to divide and reproduce?
Binary fission
Was the atomic bomb used in world war 2 a fission or a fusion bomb?
Fission.
What is the element first used for fission in the atomic bomb production?
The element first used for fission in an atomic bomb is uranium.
How is fission used to calculate the energy required?
You don't use fission to do the actual calculation. Fission can RESULT in energy being released, though.
What element is used in nuclear fission and is radioactive but is not uranium?
We can use plutonium in nuclear fission devices.
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.
Is fusion or fission used in nuclear weapons?
Both are used.
What is the major unsolved problem in using nuclear fission?
How to store the fission products contained in the used fuel.
Can Atom bomb worked by atomic fission?
Yes. Later, the Hydrogen Bomb used fission/fusion.
What element used in fission?
The isotopes 233U, 235U, 239Pu, 241Pu for a fission with low energy neutrons.
How can nuclear fission be used?
In general, physicists, and specifically nuclear physicists, use nuclear fission in experiments.
What can nuclear fission be used for?
Producing electricity
