It started with The Manhattan Project, the government program to create the Atomic Bomb. Once the bomb was made, tons of scientists and businessmen saw the potential of harnessing the massive amount of energy released in the explosion. The rest is history.
As soon as stars appeared in the universe. Stars are nuclear reactors. They are nuclear fusion bombs (hydrogen bombs held together by stupendous gravity). The fusion reactions build atomic nuclei of elements heavier than hydrogen. So all the atoms heavier than hydrogen in your body were at one stage built up in the core of a star which ultimately exploded.
No, fire is chemical energy not nuclear
Nuclear waste. Consumable Energy. Heat.
Nuclear energy is obtained by the fissioning of nuclei of uranium235, in a controlled chain reaction in a nuclear reactor, which produces heat that can be converted to electricity by normal power plant methods.
There are quite a few limiting factors for using nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is very expensive to produce for example.
No, nuclear energy is only used to make electricity
The USA started using nuclear energy in 1951
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You have to build a nuclear reactor which is an assembly of nuclear fuel and a moderator, which enables a chain fission reaction to start and continue, which releases thermal energy.
Nuclear mass --> energy conversion is most of it. Conventional explosives start it.
Commercial use for electricity, in 1956
If it is stored in the nucleus, it must be nuclear energy.
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Yes, nuclear energy is energy.
Nuclear energy
Nuclear fusion produces nuclear energy
The energy released is nuclear energy.
Uranium is used as nuclear fuel in nuclear reactors.