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Power. We all use it in the form of electricity, gas, petrol, diesel and without these sources of power our lives could not go on.
As the years have gone by mankind has devised more and more ways of finding power. It was in the last century that science developed nuclear power. Whether we are talking about nuclear fission or nuclear fusion the numbers are immense and the energy released when matter is converted into pure energy is enormous.
In 1945 the first of two atomic bombs was dropped on Japan. It was only then that the general public saw the incredible effect of nuclear fission. It was calculated that the blasts that levelled Hiroshima and Nagasaki each had an energy release equivalent to 10 million tons of TNT.
