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A nuclear power plant does use uranium as fuel
It "burns" it in the nuclear sense not the chemical sense
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What fuel is used in nuclear power plants?
A nuclear reactor is a device to initiate, control, and sustain a nuclear chain reaction. Nuclear power is energy produced from controlled nuclear reactions. When it comes to just standard fuel across the table it would have to be: Plutonium, Uranium, and Thorium.
What particular type of atom do nuclear power plants take nuclear energy from?
Uranium-235 when started. After running a while they also burn transuranics like Plutonium-239 and Americium-241.
Do you burn uranium to power nuclear energy?
It is not burning in the normal chemical sense, though nuclear engineers do talk about fuel burnup. By this they mean the amount of energy extracted from a tonne of fuel. The process is nuclear fission which means that the uranium nuclei split apart into two smaller fragments, and this releases thermal energy.
Compare a power plant that burns fossil fuels with a nuclear power plant?
Power plants that burn fossil fuels and nuclear power plants are very similar in their manner of creating steam. The main difference between the two types of power plants are that fossil fuel plants emit more pollution.
What is nuclear energy if it is not nonrenewable and not a fossil fuel?
It is nonrenewable!! Once we burn up all the Uranium we have no more.
What is nuclear used to produce?
Nuclear energy originates from the splitting of uranium atoms – a process called fission. This generates heat to produce steam, which is used by a turbine generator to generate electricity. Because nuclear power plants do not burn fuel, they do not produce greenhouse gas emissions.
Is uranium a form of chemical energy?
No, since uranium in a radioactive element, it stores Nuclear energy.Actually metallic uranium stores lots of chemical energy and can burn violently. Finely divided metallic uranium is even pyrophoric (it will ignite on exposure to air).
What is a way to produce heat energy?
Burn a fossil fuel like coal or oil, or use uranium in a nuclear reactor
How does nuclear energy differ from fossil fuels?
With fossil fuels we burn them to produce heat. With nuclear fuel we produce a nuclear chain reaction in a reactor which produces heat. Using the heat to produce electricity is the same for both types of fuel.
Should people build more nuclear power stations in the UK?
Yes, because nuclear power stations induce energy from a nucleus. That nucleus being from the most common element called Uranium. Unlike power plants that burn coal which is a fossil fuel which leads to globabl warming.... Nuclear power stations dont BURN anything. they just establish nucleuses in a 'chain reaction'. where more and more nucleuses mutate and doubles and doubles whilst giving out TONS of energy. nuclear is a clean process. But it is extremely expensive to build and it would take a long time to make the nuclear reactor and apparatus... they need to be patient. :)
Should you invest in nuclear power?
If I had the money sure, but I'd want to make sure they were new high safety designs and I would like to see fast breeders if possible so we can burn the Uranium-238 also.
What type of power source does Springfield run on?
If you mean the Springfield in the Simpsons, it's Mr. Burn's nuclear power plant. If you mean one of the hundreds of other springfields in the world, you'll have to specify which one.
