Nuclear Fission and Fusion?

Question

What is the availabilty of the resource materials for Nuclear fission
and fusion?

Also which process produces radioactive waste materials? AND VERY MUCH is not a good answer.

Answer 1

Nuclear fusion cannot take place on Earth. It needs temperatures like that of the Sun to occur.
Nuclear fission is much easier to do on Earth and is how Nuclear power is generated. This takes unstable isotopes, etc. so I doubt they are availiable for any but professionals.

Hope I've helped.

Answer 2

Well that depends. Fission and fusion are two different processes. Fission, or splitting an atom, is the only form of nuclear power we can currently harness in mass quantities. Fusion, or the joining of two atoms to form a new one, requires temperatures like that of the sun to work, which means it would be using up more energy than it produces. Fusion isn't used for mass energy production, and won't be until researches are successful at "cold" fusion.

Answer 3

The first two "atomic" bombs Fat man and Little Boy were fission devices. They split the atom. Modern weapons are two part. An initial fission reaction creates the energy needed to cause a fusion reaction.
Research things like
"Manhattan Project" "Oppenheimer" "Fermi"
"plutonium" "uranium 238"
The fission/splitting or fusion/fusing of atomic nuclei yields far greater amounts of energy in proportion to material used than conventional chemical explosives like TNT or C4.

I apologise for forgetting their names, but there was a mother and son team of physicists that measured energy outputs of fission experiments (after Fermi had shown they could be done on a racquetball court). What the team's experiments proved was the most famous equation known: E=mc^2. When they split the nucleus, the mass of the resulting parts did not add up to the mass of the original nucleus. This meant that some of the matter had been converted to energy. The rate of this conversion? c^2.

Answer 4

nuclear fission...is basically done out of radio isotopes...like uranium 235 and plutonium 239.so,they r available though in traces in india.in india,they r mined at JADUGUDA mines.

as is for fusion,u need extremely high temperatures for the molecules to fuse or high kinetic energy..which is possible either in sun or in laboratories.

hope i was useful.

Answer 5

With fission you use uranium(the uranium atom is split), and with fusion you turn an isotope of hydrogen and turn it into helium. Fusion is more efficient and has lest waste.