Going Nuclear
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Nuclear Energy - What's the Difference?
Each fission of the uranium has, on average, about two and a half neutrons produced during that fishing event. And so what happens is that then you split the uranium atoms, and you'll get different fragments produced of other elements. So you're transmuting the uranium into two roughly equally sized, smaller elements. But how much energy does that release, say, in comparison to fossil fulds? Well, typically you might expect a ton of uranium to produce as much energy as a million tons of coal, for example.
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