Can power plants produce energy

Answer 1

A:yes nuclear power plants produce energy. this is how;

Just as many conventional thermal power stations generate electricity by harnessing the thermal energy released from burningfossil fuels, nuclear power plants convert the energy released from the nucleus of an atom, typically via nuclear fission.

When a relatively large fissle atomic nucleus (usually Uranium-235 or Plutonium-239) absorbs a neutron, a fission of the atom

often results.

Fission splits the atom into two or more smaller nuclei with kinetic energy (known as fission products) and also releases gamma

radiation and free neutrons.

A portion of these neutrons may later be absorbed by other fissile atoms and create more fissions, which release more neutrons,

and so on.

This nuclear chain reaction can be controlled by using neutron poisons and neutron moderators to change the portion of neutrons

that will go on to cause more fissions.

Nuclear reactors generally have automatic and manual systems to shut the fission reaction down if unsafe conditions ar detected.

A cooling system removes heat from the reactor core andtransports it to another area of the plant, where the thermal energy

can be harnessed to produce electricity or to do other useful work.

Typically the hot coolant will be used as a heat source for a boiler, and the pressurized steam from that boiler will power

one or more steam turbine driven by electrical generators.