What determines what daughter nuclei Uranium-236 will split into?

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I’ve been learning about nuclear fission at A-Level and I was wondering what determines the ratio of protons each daughter nuclei would get?

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It is completely random but there is a statistical distribution that looks like : [Mass Distribution!](https://www.britannica.com/science/nuclear-fission/The-stages-of-fission)