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Nuclear Energy

Nuclear energy is the energy released when certain changes take place in the nucleus of an atom. Nuclear energy is partly renewable and partly non-renewable source of energy.

Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion are the two types of reactions that release nuclear energy:

a) Nuclear fusion - is renewable because hydrogen needed for this process is available in plenty in nature.

b) Nuclear fission - is non-renewable because uranium needed for this process is radioactive and has only limited existence.

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