PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Get Close to a Nuclear Fission Reaction!
Learn how scientists regulate a nuclear reactor in this animation-enhanced essay from the FRONTLINE Web site.
Atomic Archive
The Atomic Archive: Nuclear Fission
Several pages describing the nuclear fission process. Fission reactions are depicted with diagrams and described in words. Part of an extensive site with well-written information on nuclear power and nuclear science.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies: Our Energy Sources: Nuclear Energy
Nuclear fission energy accounts for a large portion of energy production worldwide. New plants will use improved technologies. There is also research underway to explore how to harness the energy produced from nuclear fusion, but this...
Other
Nuclear Threat Initiative: Nuclear 101: Nuclear Weapons
Interactive tutorial helps with understanding nuclear weapons, the different types, how they are different from conventional weapons, and how many countries have developed them.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: The Graphite Reactor
This resource describes the world's first nuclear reactor and the role which it played in the Manhattan Project. Also discussed are topics such as the goal of plutonium development for nuclear weapons, the goals of the top-secret,...
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Uranium (Nuclear)
Nuclear energy is energy in the nucleus of an atom. Atoms are tiny particles that make up every object in the universe. There is enormous energy in the bonds that hold atoms together. Nuclear energy can be used to make electricity. But...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Fission Energy
Resource explains and illustrates nuclear fission energy.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Plutonium
Information about the element, Plutonium, atomic number 94. Covers physical properties, atomic properties, how abundant it is on the Earth, and details about health-related regulations. Discusses reactor- and weapons-grade plutonium, and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fission and Fusion
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will investigate fission and fusion, and discover how they play a part in nuclear chain reactions in fission bombs, nuclear power plants, and radiation in...
Other
Need: Exploring Nuclear Energy [Pdf]
This downloadable article addresses all aspects of nuclear energy. Visual charts make understanding of cycles and concepts easier. Most useful for older students and educators. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
Other
Nrc: Students' Corner: Nuclear Energy
A colorful guide to nuclear energy and radiation. A great supplement to the NRC lesson plan series.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Quake Leaves Destruction, Fear
Discusses the triple disaster that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, with first an earthquake, then a tsunami, followed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Explains some of the basic science behind nuclear fission.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Forties: War and Peace
Describes the design of the first nuclear reactor by Enrico Fermi and his successful development of a self-ustaining nuclear chain reaction. Describes the evolution of the Manhattan Project and their race to develop the first atomic...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Energy From Matter
The history of energy being transformed from matter is provided at this site. The information starts at Einstein's formula, then discussions fusion, future energy sources, fission, and nuclear reactors.
PBS
Pbs Nova: Dirty Bomb: Sources of Radiation
In this interactive, learn about sources of both beneficial and harmful radiation which exist in many forms all around us.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was a titan of twentieth-century physics. He outlined the statistical laws that govern the behavior of particles that abide by the Pauli exclusion principle and developed a theoretical model of the atom in his mid-twenties....
Other
University of Coimbra: Enrico Fermi Biography
Short overview of Fermi's life, including major accomplishments and dates. Good, quick place to start.