Nuclear Fission
NUCLEAR FISSION There are three types of nuclear reactions that release an excessive amount of energy those three reactions that can occur are 1) radioactive decay 2) nuclear fusion and 3) nuclear fission, what we Jay, Ash and I will be talking about in our talk today. ... What is nuclear fission? Fission is the splitting of a nucleus of an atom into two nearly equal parts triggered by the absorption of a neutron. The process of fission occurs mostly in heavy, dense elements such as Uranium and Plutonium. ... In the process of the dividing atom an enormous amount of nuclear energy is released during the reaction as well as several more neutrons. These emitted neutrons caused by the fission reaction in turn have the ability to collide with another unstable atom causing a chain reaction; a chain reaction is the fission terminology where the colliding neutrons continuously produce a fission reaction.