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Title: What's the difference between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission? Post by: denver413 on Oct 28, 2013 I was doing my physics homework and I brought nuclear science into the equation. Does anyone know a line between fission and fusion, or are they essentially the same, because they look like very similar processes.
Title: What's the difference between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission? Post by: treegirls on Oct 28, 2013 Fission is the splitting of a large atom into two or more smaller ones.
Fusion is the fusing of two or more lighter atoms into a larger one. Title: What's the difference between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission? Post by: ddmmk on Oct 28, 2013 Fusion = things are FUSED, they come together.
Fission = things are SPLIT into parts. Title: What's the difference between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission? Post by: zeekarn on Oct 28, 2013 They are the opposite process! Fusion is when two nuclei interact and combine into one bigger nucleus, and fission is when one nucleus splits into two smaller nuclei. Both processes can also throw out other small particles or groups of particles.
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