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Nuclear energy is energy released from the atomic nucleus. The conversion of nuclear mass to energy is consistent with the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc², in which E = energy, m = mass, and c = the speed of light in a vacuum (a physical constant).
Nuclear energy is released by three Exothermic processes:
Nuclear energy was first discovered accidentally by French physicist Henri Becquerel in 1896, when he found that photographic plates stored in the dark near uranium were blackened in a manner similar to that due to X-Rays, which had been just recently discovered at the time.[1]