Nuclear power 1 Nuclear power can come from the fission of uranium plutonium or thorium or the fusion of hydrogen into helium. Today it is almost all uranium. The fission of an atom of uranium produces 10 million times the energy produced by the combustion of an atom of carbon from coal. By 1993, there'd been 109 licensed
Background Carbon monoxide( co)is a colorless odorless gas produced by incomplete combustion of carbonaceous material CO is formed as a by-product of burning organic compounds