Comparing Nuclear Fission And Fusion

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Any two inventions or discoveries of the twentieth century Or Comparing Fission and Fusion Reactions: Man has always been interested in discovering ideas and inventing new things. He started pondering over the facts and figures from the very early stage of his evolution and as a result he kept on progressing. We have reached a stage where we are living in the so called ‘Nuclear World’. Not only the nuclear power plants but also the nuclear weapons like Atomic bomb and Hydrogen bomb are the result of either of the two nuclear reactions; Nuclear Fission or Nuclear Fusion. Both of which were discovered in the second quarter of the twentieth century. In the nuclear fission reaction, as the name implies, a nucleus is broken into smaller parts while in nuclear fusion light nuclei are combined to form a single massive nucleus. Although nuclear fission and nuclear fusion reactions have same basic purpose of energy derivation, still there is a contrast in the conditions under which these reactions occur as well as their effect on our health. The main purpose of a nuclear fission and nuclear fusion reaction is to gain energy. To understand how energy is released; we must know the fact that during any of the two processes, the mass of the products is always less than the mass of the reactants and this deficit in the mass is converted into energy in accordance with Einstein’s mass energy relationship.(OECD Nuclear Energy Agency). The energy that we gain either due to nuclear fission or nuclear fusion can be used to generate electricity. For instance, nuclear fission is being used to generate electricity in different countries. According to Global Nuclear Power Industry Handbook, United States of America produces the most nuclear power which can fulfill 20 percent of its consuming electric power capacity, while France produces highest part of its electrical energy from
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