Energy

Fission splits a heavy nucleus into lighter ones that are more tightly bound per particle, so some mass becomes energy, mostly as motion of the fragments, which turns into heat.

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Machines that run forever without an energy source would break the laws of thermodynamics, and real systems also lose energy to friction and drag.

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