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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.
Does nuclear POWER give off CO2?
Nuclear power plants do not emit carbon dioxide (CO2) during electricity generation, as they do not burn fossil fuels. However, CO2 emissions can be indirectly associated with nuclear power from activities such as mining uranium, constructing plants, and managing waste.
Is nuclear burned?
Nuclear energy as obtained in nuclear reactor power plants comes from the fission or splitting of the nuclei of uranium and plutonium. It is not a chemical burning process and does not need any other elements to make it happen.
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.
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.
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.
What is a way to produce heat energy?
Burn a fossil fuel like coal or oil, or use uranium in a nuclear reactor
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.
Do nuclear reactors burn uranium or do they split the atoms?
Nuclear reactors split uranium atoms in a process called nuclear fission to release energy. This process generates heat that is used to produce steam, which then drives turbines to generate electricity. Burning uranium would involve a chemical reaction, while nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction.
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.
