Fission product

What is fission product?Fission is splitting the nucleus into two smaller nuclei.Fission products are the atomic fragments left after a large nucleus fissions along with a few neutrons and a large release of energy in the form of heat that is kinetic energy of the nuclei, gamma rays and neutrinos. The two smaller nuclei are the "fission products".The sum of the atomic weight of the two atoms produced by the fission of one atom is always less than the atomic weight of the original atom as some of the mass is lost as free neutrons and large amounts of energy.Each fission of a parent atom produces a different set of fission product atoms. However, while an individual fission is not predictable, the fission products are statistically predictable.The particular isotope that produced is called yield.Normally the higher the energy of the state that undergoes nuclear fission, the more likely that the two fission products have similar mass. Hence, as the neutron energy increases or the energy of the fissile atom increases, the valley between the two peaks becomes more shallow.

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