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Nuclear energy is energy released from the atomic nucleus. It follows the conversion of its mass to energy consistent with Albert Einstein's formula E=mc² in which E = Energy, m = Mass, and c = The speed of light (a physical constant). However, the mass-energy equivalence does not explain how the reaction occurs, but rather nuclear forces do. Nuclear energy is released by one of three nuclear reactions: Nuclear energy was first discovered accidentally by French physicist Henrey Becquerel in 1896, when he found that photographic plates stored near uranium compounds behaved as though they had been exposed to light in a manner similar to X-Rays, which had been just recently discovered at the time. •.
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