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== Initial Questions ==

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#1. How can you acquire energy from breaking chemical bonds within the nucleus without using radioactive (and highly dangerous) elements?

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#How can you acquire energy from breaking chemical bonds within the nucleus without using radioactive (and highly dangerous) elements?

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#2. Is there any way to acquire energy by breaking the bonds between gluons and quarks in any stable, common element such as carbon?

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#Is there any way to acquire energy by breaking the bonds between gluons and quarks in any stable, common element such as carbon?

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#3. How could humans work at nuclear power facilities without being exposed to harmful radiation?

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#How could humans work at nuclear power facilities without being exposed to harmful radiation?

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#4. Could the proton-proton reaction realistically be manipulated to produce usable energy in nuclear power plants?

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#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]

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