Example of Energy Yield: Uranium-235 Fission

Nuclear fission of uranium-235 yields an enormous amount of energy from the fact that the fission products have less total mass than the uranium nucleus, a mass change that is converted to energy by the Einstein relationship E = mc2.

Initiation of this processChain reaction. Fission fragments.Average energy release.
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Fission concepts

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