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Physics 11 Learning Guide 19 Essay "Taking a Look at Nuclear Power" The idea of powering all of Los Angelus on a bucket of seawater is intoxicating. The same technology fuels the starships of novels and television series that take our imaginations to new places. As well, the technology fuels a raging debate-one with many sides, including environmentalists, conventional power workers, government, other special interests, and us, the consumers. The two types of known nuclear reactions that produce a usable amount of electricity are nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Fission, which was discovered in 1938 by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, produces energy by splitting a uranium-235 nucleus with a slow, or thermal, neutron. The split uranium nucleus forms two other elements. The two other element's protons will add up to 92, the number of protons in uranium. By emitting 3 "spare" neutrons, the reaction also has the ability to cause other uranium-235 nuclei to...

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