Nuclear Energy Lesson

Fission splits a heavy nucleus into smaller ones, while fusion combines small nuclei into a larger one.

Fission combines small nuclei into a larger one, while fusion splits a heavy nucleus into smaller ones.

Fission and fusion both split heavy nuclei into smaller ones.

Fission and fusion both combine small nuclei into a larger one.

The sun converting hydrogen into helium.

An atomic bomb explosion.

A nuclear power plant using uranium.

A coal power plant generating electricity.

Uranium-235

Plutonium-239

Hydrogen isotopes

Krypton-36

By using steam to turn a turbine, which generates electricity.

By directly converting nuclear energy into electricity.

By using solar panels to capture energy.

By burning fossil fuels to produce heat.

It typically takes more energy to create the fusion than the resulting energy produced.

It produces too much radioactive waste.

It is too expensive to build fusion reactors.

It requires rare and expensive materials.

They contain nuclear fuel and help control the fission process.

They convert steam into electricity.

They cool down the reactor.

They split atoms to release energy.

To develop a prototype that uses nuclear fusion for clean energy.

To improve the efficiency of coal power plants.

To reduce the cost of nuclear fission reactors.

To find new sources of uranium.