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How does fission create energy?

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Every time a nucleus of U235 or Pu239 fissions it releases energy. Initially this is recoil energy of the fission fragments, plus gamma ray energy, but when the fission fragments are stopped in the fuel heat is produced, and then this is transferred to the reactor coolant.

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