Explanations of fission reactions always say there’s a tremendous amount of energy released, but where is that energy? So, if an atom of u-235 was split in a complete vacuum, in what forms(s) would the released energy be?
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It’d be released as atomic kinetic energy, radiation and magnetic. There would also be subatomic particle kinetic energy.
Where would the atomic and subatomic kinetic energy come from? From the atom that just fissioned. The source of all that energy is the bonds that were holding the atom together in the first place.
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