* Boardworks GCSE Additional Science: Physics Nuclear Energy * Boardworks GCSE Additional Science: Physics Nuclear Energy * Boardworks GCSE Additional Science: Physics Nuclear Energy Photo credit: BNFL Fuel rods being inserted into an assembly which will then be put into the nuclear reactor. These ...
NUCLEAR PHYSICS Nuclear Fission energy reactor design chain reaction artificial nuclides Energy from Fission Nuclear fission is the disintegration of a large nucleus(the parent)into two smaller(daughter) nuclei by the capture of a 'slow' (thermal) neutron. The equation describes the fission of ...