Multiple choice

Which of the following is not a characteristic of fission reaction?

  1. All fission products are radioactive.

  2. Large amount of energy is released due to conversion of a small mass to energy.

  3. Two or more neutrons are produced by fission from each nucleus.

  4. Two light weight nuclei combine to give a fission product.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

In nuclear fission, heavy nucleus cleaves into two nuclei on bombardment with slow neutrons and there is no combination of nuclei.

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