AN INQUIRY INTO NUCLEAR FISSION AND FUSION

VOCABULARY:

• Chain reaction
• Critical Mass
• Fission
• Fusion
• Moderator
• Nuclear Energy
• Nuclear Reaction
• Nuclear Reactor
• A Glossary of Nuclear Terms
• US Nuclear Commission Glossary

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COMPARISONS

FUSION AND FISSION REACTIONS  and MORE

DIFFERENT TYPES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS

CANDU

USES OF NUCLEAR ENERGY

APPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

• Nuclear power:
  • Heat for electricity generation
  • Heat for domestic and industrial heating
  • Hydrogen production
  • Desalination
• Nuclear propulsion:
  • Nuclear marine propulsion
  • Proposed nuclear thermal rockets
  • Proposed nuclear pulse propulsion rockets
• Transmutation of elements:
  • Production of plutonium, often for use in nuclear weapons
  • Creating various radioactive isotopes, such as americium for use in smoke detectors, and cobalt-60, molybdenum-99 and others, used for imaging and medical treatment
• Research Reactors
• Timeline of the development of Nuclear Technology

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING NUCLEAR ENERGY

• Ethical issues ( one point of view and the opposite)
• Environmental issues ( one side and another )

• waste management

• Political issues (pro and con)
• Safety issues from the Canadian Nuclear Industry
• Statistics ( radiation dose chart)