>I am doing a school report on nuclear fission and i need to know stuff about fission!!!!!
jcbell says:
Fission is the splitting of certain nuclei. We do this at the neuclear power plant I work at billions and billions of times per second. Uranium 235 will fission with a thermal neutron. Uranium 238 will fission with a fast neutron. In a typical nuclear power plant, thermal neutron fissions make up about 93% of all fissions. 7% of all fissions are fast fissions of uranium 238.
If you or anyone else would like to learn anything else on nuclear power plants, email me at jbell@entergy.com
I am an instructor here at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station. I have worked here for 20 years. This is the area I instruct in often. Before that I worked on a reactor in the US Navy on a submarine for three years.
