Nuclear Fission

• nuclear fission: Heavy elements nuclei (with large number of nucleons) when interacting with projectiles (n, p or ? particles) can split in several lighter nuclei --> minimizing the binding energy/nucleon

• a typical fission

• fission releases a large amount of energy from the nuclear binding energy; ( ex. above around: 210 MeV)

• typical energies from chemical reactions: a few eV !!!

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