Question 11 • Foothill-B Period-Chemistry-26/27B
Nuclear fusion has a high activation energy because positively charged nuclei repel one another, so they must collide at extremely high speeds to get close enough to fuse. Nuclear fission can occur when a heavy nucleus absorbs a neutron, which does not require overcoming the same kind of electrostatic barrier. Therefore, the correct choice is nuclear fusion.
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