How is nuclear energy produced from the fission of uranium atoms?
1 Answer
Jul 16, 2014
You can read about uranium fission in
http://socratic.org/questions/how-does-nuclear-fission-work-with-uranium?source=search
In summary, uranium fission produces energy because the total mass of the products is less than the mass of the original uranium nucleus.
The mass difference is released as energy, according to the equation