Nuclear Energy

Nuclear energy usually means the part of the energy of an atomic nucleus, which can be released by fusion or fission or radioactive decay. Nuclear energy may also refer to:

  • Nuclear binding energy, the energy required to split a nucleus of an atom
  • Nuclear Energy (sculpture), a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore in the University of Chicago
  • Nuclear potential energy, the potential energy of the particles inside an atomic nucleus
  • Nuclear power, the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity
  • Nuclear technology, applications of nuclear energy including nuclear power, nuclear medicine, and nuclear weapons

Famous quotes containing the words nuclear and/or energy:

    “The problems of the world, AIDS, cancer, nuclear war, pollution, are, finally, no more solvable than the problem of a tree which has borne fruit: the apples are overripe and they are falling—what can be done?... Nothing can be done, and nothing needs to be done. Something is being done—the organism is preparing to rest.”
    —David Mamet (b. 1947)

    “The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)