Nuclear energy - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nuclear energy may refer to:
- Nuclear power, the use of sustained nuclear fission or nuclear fusion to generate heat and electricity
- Nuclear binding energy, the energy required to split a nucleus of an atom
- Nuclear potential energy, the potential energy of the particles inside an atomic nucleus
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