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Nuclear Fission

Nuclear Fission

Nuclear energy the energy stored in the nucleus of an atom and released through fission, fusion, or radioactivity. In these processes a small amount of mass is converted to enormous amounts of energy according to the relationship E = mc2, where E is energy, m is mass, and c is the speed of light.
	Nuclear fission was first discovered in 1938 by two scientist whose names are Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman. Hahn and Strassman’s experiment wass supposed to be a repetition on Enrico Fermi’s earlier experiment which produced Neptunium-239 after the bombardment of Uranium-238. To their dismay, Hahn and Strassman produced barium in their experiment which was unjustly ruled as an impurity. They also noticed a missing amount of matter during this reaction which contradicted the Law of Conservation of Matter. These scientists were unfortunate in explaining what had just happened in their experiment. Their experiment was later interpreted correctly by Lise Meitner 1939. Meitner concluded that a Uranium nucleus had split during this reaction producing a source of tremendous amount of energy along with the Barium and other elements. Meitner’s conclusions were not proved until later investigations.
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