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Fission, Fusion and Nuclear Energy
| How does radiation cause cancer | Text-page, but with useful diagrams | 4 Star | |
| Robert Oppenheimer: I have become death, the destroyer of worlds'. | Oppenheimer was in charge of the Los Alamos project which developed the atomic bomb. This is a famous quote. From Youtube. 1:35 | 5 Star | |
| Hear first hand accounts from both the pilots and victims of the Hiroshima bomb. | From Youtube. 4:35 | 4 Star | |
| Chain Reaction Applets | Simple analogy using mouse-traps. Youtube. 1 min | 4 Star | |
| Nice introduction to why neutrons can be used to induce fission. Youtube. 2 minutes | 5 star | ||
| This one goes from the chain reaction to the atomic bomb to nuclear reactors.. Youtube. 7 minutes. | 5 star | ||
| A short chain reaction applet. Make sure to to "Enable Sound". | 4 Star | ||
| Nuclear Fission and Chain Reaction | Click on the "Chain Reaction" and "Controlled Reaction" Tabs. Don't forget the other options on the right. | 4 Star | |
| Three minute Quicktime video about Nuclear Fission and Reactors | 4 Star | ||
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| Animation of the reactor | Everything is labelled except the fuel rods. | 4 Star | |
| Animation of the power plant plus reactor | Includes the generating station | 4 Star | |
| Plutonium | Three minute Quicktime on the good and the bad of Plutonium | 4 Star | |
| What happens to Nuclear Waste? | Three minute Quicktime video. | 4 Star | |
| What happened in Chernobyl? | Three minute Quicktime video | 4 Star | |
| Greenpeace videos on Chernobyl | Very useful for presenting the dangers of nuclear reactors | 4 Star | |
| What happened in Three Mile Island? | Three minute Quicktime video. | 5 Star | |
| Tour of Columbia Generating Station | A power plant walk-through (complete with pro-nuclear spin!). google video. Six minutes. Kicks in at 1:20 | 4 Star | |
| Nuclear Reactor | Excellent flash overview of how a pressurised (Nuclear) Water Reactor works | 5 Star | |
| Nuclear Fusion | |||
| Testing the first Hydrogen Bomb | Three minute Quicktime video. | 5 Star | |
| Nuclear Blast Footage | Three minute Quicktime video. | 4 Star | |
| How stellar fusion is responsible for the elements | 8 minute video from NOVA | 5 Star | |
| A graphic showing the nuclear equation for the fusion of hydrogen | From absorblearning.com | 3 Star | |
| E = mc squared | How would 10 top physicists—two Nobel Prize winners among them—describe Einstein's equation to curious non-physicists? Audio Link | ||
| Audio Link - Listen to Einstein explaining the meaning of his equation, while also name-checking Cockroft and Walton. (one minute) | 5 Star | ||
| History of the bomb | From E = mc squared to nuclear fission to the development of the first atomic bomb. Youtube | 5 Star | |
| Whats the story with cold fusion? | Variety of video-clips from googlevideo - mostly it seems to be in the realms of "The X-Files", but judge for yourself. | 3 Star | |
| Did you know that there was once a nuclear reaction in the Earth itself | It happened in Gabon in Africa. Speech here has been speeded up. From Youtube. Or there's more here at 42:50 into the lecture | 3 Star |