University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Nuclear Fission
Analyze nuclear fission chain reactions and how to prevent them as well as explore ways to control nuclear reactions through these simulations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Nuclear Fission
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What happens during nuclear fission and what a nuclear chain reaction is. How nuclear fission can be used to produce energy and the pros and cons of using that energy.
Atomic Archive
The Atomic Archive: Nuclear Fission
Several pages describing the nuclear fission process. Fission reactions are depicted with diagrams and described in words. Part of an extensive site with well-written information on nuclear power and nuclear science.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Nuclear Fission
Start a chain reaction, or introduce non-radioactive isotopes to prevent one. Control energy production in a nuclear reactor.
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Nuclear Energy: Audio Book
Listen and learn as you view examples and explanations of nuclear energy. View examples and formulas for binding energy, nuclear fission, chain reaction, and nuclear power.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Nuclear Fission and Fusion Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson explains the processes of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Includes simulations on nuclear fission and on isotope decay.
Atomic Archive
The Atomic Archive: Nuclear Chain Reactions
A couple of pages of text and graphics describing nuclear chain reactions. The means by which neutrons intiate and sustain a reaction is explained. A second page describes the complications associated with uncontrolled nuclear chain...
Other
Lcid: Comparison of Fission and Fusion Processes
From the Science Teacher's Resource Center. A data sheet tabulating the many differences between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Technical information about the nuclear reactions, the mass defect, isotope masses, etc. is included.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Fusion and Fission
Given diagrams, illustrations, symbols, or descriptions, student will distinguish between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.
Atomic Archive
Nuclear Fusion: The Hydrogen Bomb
From the Atomic Archive - the online companion to the award-winning CD-ROM. This page (and the couple that follow from it) describe the use of fusion reactions in a hydrogen bomb. A schematic diagram of an H-bomb is given and discussed....
Curated OER
Nuclear Fission
A couple of pages of text and graphics describing nuclear chain reactions. The means by which neutrons intiate and sustain a reaction is explained. A second page describes the complications associated with uncontrolled nuclear chain...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Neutrons
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores the discovery and properties of the neutron and the process of nuclear fission.
PBS
Pbs Nova: Dirty Bomb: Sources of Radiation
In this interactive, learn about sources of both beneficial and harmful radiation which exist in many forms all around us.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
At this site from The Nobel Foundation, read about the life and scientific discoveries of physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), whose work with radiation and "discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons" earned him the...