Santa Clara County is included in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area.
nuclear fission involves the splitting of a heavy nucleus into lighter nuclei while nuclear fusion involves the combining of light nuclei into a single heavier nucleus both processes produce vast amounts of energy but each has its own unique set of advantages and disadvantages as an energy source
There are two fundamental nuclear processes considered for energy production: fission and fusion. 1  Fission is the energetic splitting of large atoms such as Uranium or Plutonium into two smaller atoms, called fission products. To split an atom, you have to hit it with a neutron.