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Energy is not lost, nor is it created. It can only be moved from one frame of reference to another. The same goes for mass.
When you say that energy is "lost", you seem to be asking what happens during various fission or fusion processes that result in the release of energy. If this is not correct, please restate the question and give more details as to what you want.
When nuclear interactions such as fission or fusion occur, the residual binding energy (part of the strong interaction) required to sustain the end result is often less than the energy required to sustain the original configuration. We call this a mass defect or deficit, because mass and energy are equivalent to each other by Einstein's mass-energy equivalence equation e = mc2. This excess mass/energy is released to the system in the form of free energy, radiation, particles, etc. It is not actually "lost"; it is moved from being used to hold things together to where it is no longer needed to do so. (And neither is the mass "lost"; it is simply carried away in the energy, because mass is energy and energy is mass.)
That's the simple answer. On a slightly more complex level, each nuclide has its own requirement for binding energy, and if you plot energy versus nuclide, you discover a curve. Starting with hydrogen and going up the list, the energy curve increases. There is a steep jump from hydrogen to helium, then it comes back down slightly, and then goes back on up to around iron. Beyond iron, however, the curve is generally decreasing, and it continues to do so to the end of the elemental list.
Because of this curve that is increasing with the light nuclides, and decreasing with the heavy nuclides, we find that fusion of the light nuclides releases energy, while fission of the heavy nuclides also releases energy. Certainly, you could fission light nuclides, or fuse heavy nuclides, but because of the slope of the curve, you would have to contribute energy, and lots of it, so that just does not happen.
The related link below has a picture of the curve. The second related link below has the article that contains the picture along with further explanation.
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In a nuclear reaction mass must be a lost to produce energy?
The mass is not lost but transformed in energy.
When nuclear fussion occurs some mass is lost where does it go?
The mass that is lost during nuclear fusion is converted into energy according to Einstein's equation, E=mc^2. This released energy is what powers the sun and other stars.
In a power plant energy is lost as what?
Energy is lost as heat. A typical nuclear power plant produces about twice as much energy as waste heat as it does in electricity. Other power plants are not much better, except for such things as more modern gas plants, which can used combined cycle to recover some of the lost heat (nuclear could too) and even do cogeneration use more waste heat to heat buildings (which nuclear plants probably cannot).
Nuclear reaction what is lost as energy is created?
Mass.The total mass of the fragment nuclei after fission, or the composite nucleus after fusion,is less than the mass of the nuclei that entered the process.
Is fission nuclear energy chemical energy or mechanical energy?
Nuclear fission is a type of nuclear reaction that converts nuclear energy into thermal energy (heat), which can then be used to generate mechanical energy (such as electricity). So, fission nuclear energy originates as nuclear energy and can be converted into mechanical energy.
How does nuclear lose energy?
thermal energy lost
What energy is lost from nuclear energy?
Some heat is lost in the vapour that rises from the power plant.
How is energy lost in a nuclear reactor?
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In a nuclear reaction mass must be a lost to produce energy?
The mass is not lost but transformed in energy.
What does E equals mc2 have to do with nuclear fusion?
Some mass is "lost" during nuclear fusion and E = mc2 gives the amount of energy that this "lost" mass will be equal to.
What happens to the mass lost in nuclear fusion?
The mass lost in nuclear fusion is converted into energy according to Einstein's famous equation, E=mc^2. This energy is released in the form of photons, such as gamma rays, and contributes to sustaining the fusion reaction.
When nuclear fussion occurs some mass is lost where does it go?
The mass that is lost during nuclear fusion is converted into energy according to Einstein's equation, E=mc^2. This released energy is what powers the sun and other stars.
In a nuclear reaction mass must be lost to produce energy. true or false?
False. Both mass and energy are conserved.
In a power plant energy is lost as what?
Energy is lost as heat. A typical nuclear power plant produces about twice as much energy as waste heat as it does in electricity. Other power plants are not much better, except for such things as more modern gas plants, which can used combined cycle to recover some of the lost heat (nuclear could too) and even do cogeneration use more waste heat to heat buildings (which nuclear plants probably cannot).
What happens to the mass that is lost during fusion?
Mass that is "lost" durning nuclear fusion is converted into binding energy to hold the newly formed atomic nucleus together. The lost mass, which is termed mass deficit, means the nucleus of the newly formed atom has less mass than the sum of the masses of the protons and neutrons that make up that nucleus. The stong reaction (strong nuclear force) participitates in the fursion reaction by mediating the conversion of mass into nuclear binding energy (or nuclear glue).It converts into the energy that is the desired end product of the reaction.
Nuclear reaction what is lost as energy is created?
Mass.The total mass of the fragment nuclei after fission, or the composite nucleus after fusion,is less than the mass of the nuclei that entered the process.
Is fusion nuclear energy or chemical energy?
Nuclear fusion produces nuclear energy
