$50 QUESTION -- Category: Our Generation

What process do nuclear power plants use to make electricity?

  1. "Friction" -- the rubbing of one atom against another

  2. "Fission" -- the splitting of an atom.

  3. "Fusion" -- the joining of two nuclei to make a larger atom.

Sorry! The correct answer is 2. The splitting of an atom. (Scientists have been trying to control fusion, the process the sun uses to produce heat and light. Harnessing fusion would produce less deadly radiation than the current technique, fission creates. So far, however, scientists have not been very successful.)

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