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Yes, but they also consume them. The uranium fuel used has a halflife measured in billions of years, the materials they produce have halflives measured in only hundreds or thousands of years. So in the long term balance of things they consume radioactive substances faster than they produce them.
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Which substances is a fuel used in nuclear power plants?
Uranium
Radioactive metal used in nuclear power plants?
I think it is uranium
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using uranium as a fuel?
Uranium is very important as a nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants. But uranium is toxic and radioactive.
Do nuclear power plants use uranium to produce energy?
Yes, uranium is the most important nuclear fuel now.
What gases do power plants let off?
It depends what type of power plant. A coal-burning power plant will produce CO2 and SO2, which are both pollutants. Nuclear power plants and geothermal power plants produce steam, which is not a pollutant. There are many other types of power plants, but most produce CO2 and SO2 or steam.
Can you get power from the radioactive element Uranium?
Yes, the radioactive decay of Uranium-235 is used to produce power in nuclear power plants.
How is nuclear energy used beside in power plants?
Though power plants are, perhaps, the most important use of nuclear energy, there are a lot of others. Radioactive substances are used in for variety of industrial and technical functions. The most common of these is possibly the use of radioactive materials in smoke detectors. Also, nuclear emissions are used for measurement, such as of the thickness of things otherwise difficult to measure,, or for imaging. There are important uses for radioactive substances in medicine. Some of these are used for diagnosis, such as in imaging. Others are used in therapy. Also, whether we like it or not, nuclear energy is used in nuclear bombs.
What has the author Michael D Matheny written?
Michael D Matheny has written: 'QWATA documentation' -- subject(s): Dosage, Environmental aspects, Environmental aspects of Nuclear power plants, Nuclear power plants, Radiation, Radiation dosimetry, Radioactive pollution of water, Radioactive substances in rivers, lakes
From where radioactive wastes are produced?
By nuclear power plants
Which nuclear process occurs within nuclear power plants and produces radioactive waste materials?
Nuclear Fission
What do nuclear power plants have to do with nuclear energy?
Nuclear power plants produce electricity by using nuclear energy
Does nuclear power produce radioactive waste?
Yes. It is contained in the spent fuel rods, which when they have been used too much to be useful anymore are removed from the reactor and stored in a large pool of water to keep them cool until most of the radioactivity has decayed (the energy released in radioactive decay could heat them hot enough to melt if they were not cooled). They were then supposed to be removed from the temporary storage pool and shipped to a long term storage facility or a reprocessing plant, but the US has built neither so the spent fuel rods remain in the temporary storage pools.Also coal fired plants produce and release coal waste, which includes radioactive uranium oxides in the smoke (nuclear power plants do not release their wastes).
Do most nuclear power plants use atoms to make nuclear energy?
Nuclear power plants use the heat from the radioactive decay of Uranium or other radioactive atoms to boil water and make steam to run electrical generators.
What dangerous wastes are produced by nuclear power plants?
Power plants do not produce "dangerous radioactive waves" or "dangerous electromagnetic waves" or "dangerous subsonic sounds" or anything of that nature. Coal fired plants may produces some sulfur dioxide but that's about it.Nuclear power plants produce some radioactive waste but the major danger arises from the operation in the US of such plants which is aimed at producing plutonium for bombs.
What are some advntages of using uranium to produce electeity?
Uranium is very important as a nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants have no contribution to global warming. Also producing electricity in nuclear power plants lead to economy of fossil fuels; note many countries has not fossils fuels and the prices are more and more greater. But uranium is toxic and radioactive.
Which substances is a fuel used in nuclear power plants?
Uranium
What are nuclear plants used for?
To produce electricity
