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Assertion: Energy is released when heavy nuclei E undergo fission or light nuclei undergo fusion.
Reason: For heavy nuclei, binding energy per nucleon increases with increasing Z while for light nuclei it decrease with increasing Z.

A

Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion

B

Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion

C

Assertion is true , Reason is false

D

Assertion is false , Reason is true .

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