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Uranium 235
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Plutonium 239
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Does steam from nuclear cooling towers have radioactive elements?
No. The water going through the cooling towers is not in contact with the fuel, often by three levels of separation. The steam is only condensation.
What are the ways in which power stations can be powered?
Power turbines are driven by steam. Steam can be raised by thermal, nuclear or geothermal processes. Wind and water can also drive a generator. The auxiliaries for a power station (which I think is what this question is asking) are typically powered by step down transformers within the power station. In nuclear power stations there are often standby-critical supplies which are driven by gas turbines or diesel generators.
How are atoms affected by nuclear radiation?
Nuclear radiation can affect atoms in a couple of different ways. It commonly makes them hotter. But also, when the radiation includes neutrons, they can be captured by the atoms around. This can cause those atoms to do a number of things, including:Undergoing fission, often releasing more neutronsAbsorbing the neutronundergoing decay other than fission (even if the atom is not radioactive)bouncing the neutron off, and getting hot in the processIf the atom absorbs the neutron, its mass number changes, making it a different isotope. This often makes it a radioactive isotope, so it would decay at some later time.The fact that certain atoms will undergo fission when they are struck by a neutron is what causes nuclear chain reactions used in nuclear power plants.Read more: How_does_nuclear_radiation_affect_atoms
Which element is used by most nuclear power plants to produce nuclear energy?
First of all, you should distinguish between isotopes, not elements. For example, U-235 (uranium 235) and U-238 are the same element, and have the same chemical properties, but for a power plant, they are completely different things. U-235 is often used; it is also possible to convert other isotopes, such as U-238, into isotopes that are useful for nuclear fission - in this example, a plutonium isotope.
What do power stations burn most often?
In the USA its coal.
An imports element often used in nuclear power stations?
Uranium
What is a radioactive element often used in nuclear power stations means?
Uranium. Most current power reactors use Uranium enriched to 3% Uranium-235.
A radoiactive element often used in nuclear power stations?
Uranium 235 Plutonium
A radioactive element often used in nuclear power sations?
I think you mean Uranium /U/.
Is uranium a nutrient?
No, Uranium is a rare-ish element whose radioactive isotope is often used in nuclear reactors. ingestion of radioactive elements can result in death
What is an sythetic element?
Synthetic elements are those elements that are not naturally occurring on earth, but rather have been synthesized in a nuclear reactor. They are often radioactive with short halflifes.
Is All isotopes of a given element are radioactive?
No. The most common isotope(s) of an element are often stable.
Why is the age of a gold ingot is often mentioned because Gold is not radioactive?
natural isotope of gold is 197 and he is stable element and not with radioactive decay why the gold ingot are often associated with age?
What must occur before a radioactive atoms ceases to undergo further radioactive decay?
A stable, nonradioactive atom must be formed.
How is radioactivity and radiometric dating are related?
When we use the term radioisotope, this means an isotope of an element that emits radiation, whether alpha, beta, or gamma in nature. Sometimes an element that is found in nature is not radioactive, but an isotope that is artificially produced by exposing the element to neutrons in a reactor, can often be found to be radioactive, because an extra neutron has been added to the nucleus. The nucleus has the same number of protons so is the same element, but the nucleus is now unstable and has become radioactive. Not all elements behave the same way. If you look up a particular element in Wikipedia you will find if it has radioisotopes in the details, and what sort of nuclear radiation is produced.
Does changing the number of neutrons affect what type of element it is?
No. You have to change the number of protrons.(Changing the number of neutrons changes the isotope of the element, but it is still the same element. However, changing the number of neutrons will often result in instability, causing a radioactive decay sequence, which often results in a change in element.)
What radioactive element is not commonly used in dating archaeological artefacts?
The most often used radioactive elements used in radiometric dating are carbon, potassium-argon and uranium-lead.Other elements are not, or very rarely used.
