Given below are two statements: \ Statement I: Energy is released when a heavy nucleus undergoes fi

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Given below are two statements: \ Statement I: Energy is released when a heavy nucleus undergoes fission into nuclei with intermediate mass.\ Statement II: For light nuclei, fusion requires them to overcome a high coulomb potential barrier.

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Both statements are factually correct. Fission releases energy due to increased BE/nucleon. Fusion requires high temperatures to overcome the Coulomb repulsion between positively charged light nuclei.