Physics
(i) What do you understand by the term nuclear fusion?
(ii) Nuclear power plants use the nuclear fission reaction to produce electricity. What is the advantage of producing electricity by fusion reaction?
Radioactivity
ICSE 2018
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(i) The combining of two or more light nuclei at very high temperature and pressure, to form a heavy nucleus is called nuclear fusion. In this process, huge amount of energy is released.
(ii) The energy released in nuclear fusion will be more than in nuclear fission for the same mass.
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