How to pronounce “electron volt” in English

would need to put those protons through a potential, through a high voltage, in order to accelerate them.So we use a unit of energy for the acceleration called an electron volt. So if you have an electron moving through one volt, that's one electron volt. What theythought they needed to do something useful, like split the atom, they thought they needed about 10 million volts, which was an insane