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How does nuclear fission take place?

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(i) When a slow moving neutron is bombarded on Uranium - 235 nucleus, it absorbs the neutron and gets converted into its isotope Uranium - 236.
(ii) Uranium - 236 being extremely unstable, converts into atoms of Barium and Krypton through a process of fission releasing three neutrons and 200 Me V energy.
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