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| == Initial Questions == | == Initial Questions == | ||
| − | 1. How can you acquire energy from breaking chemical bonds within the nucleus without using radioactive (and highly dangerous) elements? | + | #1. How can you acquire energy from breaking chemical bonds within the nucleus without using radioactive (and highly dangerous) elements? | 
| − | 2. Is there any way to acquire energy by breaking the bonds between gluons and quarks in any stable, common element such as carbon? | + | #2. Is there any way to acquire energy by breaking the bonds between gluons and quarks in any stable, common element such as carbon? | 
| − | 3. How could humans work at nuclear power facilities without being exposed to harmful radiation? | + | #3. How could humans work at nuclear power facilities without being exposed to harmful radiation? | 
| − | 4. Could the proton-proton reaction realistically be manipulated to produce usable energy in nuclear power plants? | + | #4. Could the proton-proton reaction realistically be manipulated to produce usable energy in nuclear power plants? | 
| − | [http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/fission/fission.html] | + | #[http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/fission/fission.html] | 
Revision as of 19:57, 22 July 2011
Initial Questions
- 1. How can you acquire energy from breaking chemical bonds within the nucleus without using radioactive (and highly dangerous) elements?
- 2. Is there any way to acquire energy by breaking the bonds between gluons and quarks in any stable, common element such as carbon?
- 3. How could humans work at nuclear power facilities without being exposed to harmful radiation?
- 4. Could the proton-proton reaction realistically be manipulated to produce usable energy in nuclear power plants?
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