
List some advantages and disadvantages of hydrogen, direct methanol, and microbial fuel cells.

Important Questions on Energy
Nuclear power is one potential energy source that does not involve fossil fuels. Current nuclear technology is dependent on fission reactions. Nuclear technology developed very rapidly between 1940 and 1970. Outline why this occurred.

Nuclear power is one potential energy source that does not involve fossil fuels. Current nuclear technology is dependent on fission reactions. The equation for a possible nuclear fission reaction is:
The masses of the particles involved in the fission reaction are shown below:
mass of neutron
mass of nucleus
mass of nucleus
mass of nucleus
Determine the energy released when one uranium nucleus undergoes fission according to the reaction above.


Nuclear fuels require the enrichment of natural uranium. Explain how this process is carried out including the underlying physical principle.

Nuclide X has a half-life of day and nuclide Y has a half-life of days. In a particular sample, the activities of X and Y are found to be equal. When the activity is tested again after days, the activity will be

Which one of the following diagrams best illustrates the first two stages of an uncontrolled fission chain reaction?


