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The reason so as to why the heat of fission reaction is used directly to create steam to operate a turbine is to be stated.
Concept Introduction:
Some of the heavy radioactive nuclides are very unstable. They undergo decay in two ways, one is alpha decay and another is splitting of the nucleus and releasing a large amount of energy. Again, some of the heavy nuclides do not undergo fission spontaneously, but will undergo if irradiated or bombarded with suitable particle like neutron. Splitting of heavy radioactive nuclides into two or more nucleus with some number of neutrons is called fission reaction. The nuclear waste is the material that nuclear fuel becomes after its use in a fission reactor.
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