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What particles maintain a nuclear chain reaction?
In most cases neutrons are emitted and capable of maintaining a nuclear chain reaction
How is a chain reaction in a nuclear reactor controlled?
Nuclear reactors contain rods made of materials which will absorb neutrons. This reduced the cascade of neutrons which are responsible for the chain reaction.
What emitted particles maintain a nuclear chain reaction?
In most cases neutrons are emitted and capable of maintaining a nuclear chain reaction
What is necessary sustain a nuclear chain reaction?
In a chain reaction, neutrons released during the splitting of an initial nucleus trigger a series of nuclear fissions.
What is shot at an isotope's nucleus to trigger a nuclear chain reaction?
neutrons
Are there fast neutrons?
Yes, in fact for a sustainable nuclear chain reaction to work, you have to slow neutrons down.
Is fusion a chain reaction?
Not exactly, nuclear chain reactions are a series of nuclear fissions initiated by neutrons produced in a preceding fission.
A nuclear chain reaction occurs when excess collide with other nuclei?
Neutrons
A Self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction is dependent upon the release of what?
Neutrons
What control the chain reaction in a nuclear reactor?
The reason a nuclear chain reaction occurs is that one of the by products of a single reaction: the neutrons can start reactions of their own. So how do you stop a chain reaction? Stop these neutrons from causing any more reactions. This is done in nuclear reactors by placing control rods into the reactor core. These control rods are made of elements that can absorb the high energy neutrons without reacting themselves. Therefore, by moving these rods in and out of the reactor, the rate of reaction in a nuclear reactor can be easily controlled.
What the is krypton?
In nuclear reactors, krypton can absorb enough neutrons to slow or stop the chain reaction.
What is the krypton problem?
In nuclear reactors, krypton can absorb enough neutrons to slow or stop the chain reaction.
