
In early March 2009, Erin Izumi, a woman in her 30s from Tacoma, Wash., underwent robotically assisted surgery to treat endometriosis. The operation at St. Joseph Medical Center dragged on for nearly 11 hours.
Nuclear Power Stations use a fuel called uranium, a
relatively common material. Energy is released from uranium when an atom
is split by a neutron. The uranium atom is split into two and as this
happens energy is released in the form of radiation and heat. This
nuclear reaction is called the fission process
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