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Nuclear Energy About 20% of our electricity comes from Nuclear Power Plants

Nuclear Power Plant Converts Heat energy to Electric energy

Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Fission

Problems with Nuclear energy 1.Nuclear Waste is produced Low Level waste High Level Waste

Nuclear Fusion -Must have incredibly high temperatures ( over 100,000,000 C) - Occurs in the Sun

TMI

Atomic Bomb

Nuclear bomb amination bomb4.htmhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear- bomb4.htm Nuclear bomb animation

“Little Boy” Nickname of 1 st atomic bomb Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945

Hiroshima, just after impact of the bomb

Hiroshima after impact

“Fat Man” Nickname of the second atomic bomb Dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, 3 days after “Little Boy”

Fat Man animation bomb5.htmhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear- bomb5.htm

Church in Hiroshima after the bomb hit.

A-bomb dome

Melted bottle from Hiroshima

Atomic shadow

Pictures of atomic clouds

Picture of an atomic cloud

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