The protons and neutrons in an atom's nucleus are bound together by the strong nuclear force. By fusing together the nuclei of two light atoms, or by splitting a heavy atom in a process called fission, we can release some of this binding energy. After more than half a century of research, fusion remains technologically elusive. Here we focus on fission, exploited in hundreds of reactors around the world; in 2011, it provided about 13.5 per cent of the world's electrical energy
In December 1942 Enrico Fermi achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, harnessing the process that would be used to lay waste to the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in August 1945. In the aftermath of this destruction, proponents of nuclear power made the case that splitting the atom could also be used for benevolent ends, supplying clean ...
For the generation of electrical power by fission, see Nuclear power. "Splitting the atom" redirects here. For the EP, see Splitting the Atom. An induced fission ...While older plants burn fossil fuels, nuclear plants depend on the heat that occurs during nuclear fission, when one atom splits into two and releases energy.
Splitting the Atom is an EP by Massive Attack. It was released as a download on 4 October 2009, and on vinyl (limited to 1,000 copies worldwide) on 19 October ...He is widely credited with first "splitting the atom" in 1917 in a nuclear reaction between nitrogen and alpha particles, in which he also discovered (and named) ...
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