Asked in a 2000 paper

Nuclear fission of one atom of uranium-235 produces the energy equivalent to about ____________ MeV?

Correct answer: B. 200

  • A. 20
  • B. 200
  • C. 500
  • D. 2000

Explanation

A uranium-235 fission event releases about 200 MeV, mainly as kinetic energy of the fission fragments and some neutron and gamma energy. This is vastly larger than ordinary chemical bond energies, which are measured in eV rather than hundreds of MeV.

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