One Million Times More Energy Than Burning Fossil Fuels With Nuclear Fission

Before we get into nuclear fission, I would like to take you on a visual journey in your mind’s eye to give you an understanding of the scale of minuscule we are talking about here.

To understand nuclear fission, we will be talking about a nucleus (and plural nuclei) quite a lot. A Nucleus is tiny, too tiny to comprehend unless we apply some perspective.

Let’s start with a grain of sand, a single grain of sand about 1mm from end to end.