and how the associated risks can be reduced. Adaptability Problem solving 54 Section 7: Students will be assessed on their Activity: Edexcel International GCSE Ethics Ethics ability to: Physics: 228–230, 231 and Radioactivity and Balance fission and fusion Personal and social particles 232 equations. responsibility c) Fission and fusion 7.17 know that nuclear reactions, including fission, fusion and Fission and fusion: ActiveBook Demonstrations: radioactive decay, can be a source of Page 229, animation Watch applet showing energy nuclear fission. Questions in Edexcel International Watch video about progress 7.18 understand how a nucleus of GCSE Physics Revision towards nuclear fusion can be split (the process of Pages 89 to 91 and Pages 103 to reactor e.g. JET, ITER and fission) by collision with a neutron, 104 other international projects and that this process releases Mousetrap model of a chain energy in the form of kinetic energy reaction. of the fission products 7.19 know that the fission of U-235 produces two daughter nuclei and a small number of neutrons Video clip: 7.20 describe how a chain reaction can be set up if the neutrons produced by one fission strike other U-235 nuclei
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