Assertion : Energy is released when heavy nuclei undergo fission or light nuclei undergo fusion.
Reason : For heavy nuclei,binding energy per nucleon increases with increasing $Z$ while for light nuclei it decreases with increasing $Z$.
Reason : For heavy nuclei,binding energy per nucleon increases with increasing $Z$ while for light nuclei it decreases with increasing $Z$.
- AIf both Assertion and Reason are correct and the Reason is a correct explanation of the Assertion.
- BIf both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not a correct explanation of the Assertion.
- CIf the Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.
- DIf both the Assertion and Reason are incorrect.
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