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Simple question BUT SO MANY please help

Simple question BUT SO MANY please help-example-1
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Coal-fired plants put coal through a combustion reaction, in order to generate heat energy. While nuclear plants use principals of fission to generate power.

A combustion reaction does not split an atom, while fission is the process of breaking apart atoms, so we can conclude hat it isn’t #1.

I don’t think humans have even been able to reliably fuse atoms together, thus #2 can not be correct.

Fission is not a chemical reaction, therefore it can’t be #4.

I think both provide heat which then heats water thus turning a turbine that generates electricity. #3 is deductively the correct answer.
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