Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Jump to content

Nuclear fission

Frae Wikipedia, the free beuk o knawledge

In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fission is either a nuclear reaction or a radioactive decay process in which the nucleus o a pairticle splits intae smawer pairts (lichter nuclei). The fission process eften produces free neutrons an photons (in the form o gamma rays), an releases a very muckle amoont o energy even bi the energetic staundarts o radioactive decay.