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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Fusion Power

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a brief explanation of nuclear fusion power which offers the promise of an almost inexhaustible source of energy for future generations if the reactors can be made to work.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Energy: Fission/fusion

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a definition and explanation of fission, the splitting of a heavy nucleus into two roughly equal parts, and fusion, the process where two nuclei combine together to form a larger nucleus.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Basic Nuclear Science Information

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides the ABC's of nuclear science including radioactivity and gamma decay to fission and comic rays.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Fission Energy

For Students 11th - 12th
Resource explains and illustrates nuclear fission energy.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Site investigates nuclear reactions with a description of how they occur.