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Both fusion and fission have the same procedures in common, but there are different requirement to initiate the reaction. What happens is that in a fission reaction, atomic bombs undergoes fission reaction. A highly reactive and or in-fact radioactive element such as uranium, specially Uranium-135. To initiate the reaction, a free proton is released which is then absorbed by the uranium element, which destabilises its arrangement so it emits radioactive particles such as alpha and beta, splitting the molecule into two pieces and more three free neutrons and that neutrons gets absorbed by another nucleus and there goes the chain reaction and huge and huge amount of energy is released.

With fusion reaction, its all about how the sun works, actually works and we don't have the technology to be able use it. To initiate the reaction it requires about 10^8 degrees, which is boom boom temperature. Fusion reaction occurs when two smaller nuclei joins in one piece and huge amount nuclear energy is released.

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Are nuclear bombs made with nuclear fusion?

Nuclear bombs can use either nuclear fission or nuclear fusion as the primary mechanism of energy release. Most nuclear bombs in current arsenals rely on nuclear fission reactions, while thermonuclear bombs use a fission reaction to trigger a fusion reaction.


What kind of energy is produced by both fission and fusion processes?

Nuclear energy is produced by both fission and fusion processes.


What is a nuclear explostion?

A nuclear explosion is the uncontrolled reaction (either fusion of fission) of nuclei and nuclei (fusion) or nuclei and neutrons (fission). Both processes produce vast amoutns of energy, as well as more nuclei or neutrons (for fusion or fission, respectively) to continue the chain reaction. This energy, if not moderated (such as in the case of a nuclear reactor, in which this reaction is harnased to produce electricity), explodes with a force many many times that of an equal quantity of dynamite (on the order of tens or even hundreds of thousands of times more force) or other conventional explosives.


Why a fission reaction is neccasary for fusion reaction?

It isn't, in general. Thermonuclear bombs use a fission bomb to generate the heat and pressure required to start the fusion process, but there are other ways of doing it (stars do so by gravity, for instance).


What Energy released by a fission of fusion reaction?

In a fission reaction, energy is released when a heavy nucleus splits into lighter nuclei and neutrons. In a fusion reaction, energy is released when light nuclei combine to form a heavier nucleus. Both reactions release a large amount of energy due to the difference in binding energy between the initial and final nuclei.

Related Questions

Is reaction on sun a fusion or fission?

fission..sup


What is the opposite reaction to fusion?

fission


What are two types of reaction?

Fission and fusion


How a fusion reactor would be similar to a fission reactor?

explain how a fusion reactor would be similar to a fission reaction


A fission reaction is similar to a fusion reaction in that both reactions involve?

A fission reaction and a fusion reaction are similar in that both involve the release of nuclear energy from the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei, respectively. They both result in a change in the nucleus of an atom, leading to the release of large amounts of energy.


Are nuclear bombs made with nuclear fusion?

Nuclear bombs can use either nuclear fission or nuclear fusion as the primary mechanism of energy release. Most nuclear bombs in current arsenals rely on nuclear fission reactions, while thermonuclear bombs use a fission reaction to trigger a fusion reaction.


Can fusion take place in the nucleus of a uranium atom?

Not fusion, but a fission reaction.


What kind of energy is produced by both fission and fusion processes?

Nuclear energy is produced by both fission and fusion processes.


Atomic bombs are the result of what nuclear reaction?

fission and/or fusion


What kind of reaction can change an element into another?

Fusion or fission.


Is the nuclear reaction in the sun the same as in nuclear bombs?

In the so-called "hydrogen bomb" or fusion bomb, yes, there is energy released from the same reaction (hydrogen fusing to helium) as in the Sun.However, many if not most atomic bombs are fission bombs that do not involve fusion. In a fission bomb, the nuclei of uranium atoms are split, converting some of their mass to energy.All current fusion bombs include fission reactions to trigger the greater energy release from fusion. But most of the energy in very large fission-fusion bombs comes from a third-stage reaction: the fusion causes an exceptionally powerful fission reaction in a uranium shell around the bomb. This called a Teller-Ulam device or fission-fusion-fission bomb.


What type of reaction supplies the most energy?

fusion nuclear reaction followed by fission nuclear reaction