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Can nuclear power plants produce material that could be converted?
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∙ 6y ago
Nuclear energy is released from the nucleus when U235 fissions, it appears initially as kinetic energy of the fission fragments, these are then stopped in the fuel material and turned to thermal energy. We can't use the nuclear energy directly.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 6y agoWe don't generally try to associate the conversion of mechanical energy to nuclear energy of any kind. Mechanical energy can be looked at as the energy of motion (kinetic energy) or the stored energy of position (potential energy). Nuclear energy is associated with the nuclear binding energy in atomic nuclei, and the conversion of Atomic Mass into energy. It's too much of a leap to attempt to link mechanical energy to any kind of nuclear potential energy.
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∙ 6y agoIt is not clear what you are expecting the material to be converted into, BUT in a nuclear power plant the nuclear fission that goes on does convert one material (element) into another material (element).
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What do humans use fission for?
One use is in nuclear power plants to produce steam and turn turbines to generate electricity.Nuclear bombs ^.^
How is nuclear energy usefull to mankind?
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What do nuclear power plants have to do with nuclear energy?
Nuclear power plants produce electricity by using nuclear energy
What are nuclear plants used for?
To produce electricity
What process do nuclear power plants use produce energy?
All current nuclear power plants use nuclear fission to produce energy. For more information on fission and power plants, see the related links.
What process do nuclear power plants use to produce energy?
All current nuclear power plants use nuclear fission to produce energy. For more information on fission and power plants, see the related links.
What is the method used to produce nuclear energy in power plants?
nuclear fission
Power plants produce energy by the process of nuclear?
fission.
How is nuclear energy used to produce electricity?
Nuclear energy, or nuclear power, uses exothermic nuclear processes to produce electricity. Nuclear power plants provide around 10% of the world's electricity.
What energy do nuclear power plants create?
They use nuclear energy to produce power for the grid.
Can nuclear power plants produce materials that can be converted to nuclear weapons?
most cannot, as to produce weapons grade plutonium the fuel cycle must be made very very short. however soviet RBMK reactors and the US hanford N reactor were designed explicitly to produce both electric power and weapons grade plutonium.
What mehod use to produce buclear energy in power plants?
Assuming you mean "nuclear energy": power plants don't produce it, they use it.
How does nuclear power plants produce electricity?
Using nuclear fission, generators are turned.
How are hydroelectric plants and nuclear power plants the same?
The only similarity I can think of is that they both produce electricity
