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How many years of experience do you need to become a nuclear reactor system engineer?
my cousin became a nuclear reactor engineer and he said it was about 12 years
When you split an atom why does it explode?
WHEN WE SPLIT AN ATOM IT EXPLODES because the become unstable.
Is the nuclear reactor useful to made atom bombs?
Yes, the nuclear reactor can be useful when it comes to making nuclear weapons. Uranium can be lowered into the operating reactor and can be bathed in the neutron flux to become (through nuclear transformation) plutonium. Plutonium is ready to be shaped into the subcritical masses used in nuclear weapons.
Why volcano in Pompeii explode?
An earthquake in the plates underneath Mt Vesuvius caused the volcano to become unstable, resulting in the eruption
What converts nuclear energy from uranium?
Uranium's structure is unstable. To try to become stable it shoots off particles. Those particles are radioactive, they are the nuclear energy, like an x-ray for example.
How does uranium fuel get heated in a nuclear reactor?
Fuel in a nuclear reactor is heated by fission reactions. In fission, fuel atoms absorb a neutron, become unstable, and "split apart" into a two approximately equal parts. These parts are called fission fragments, and they come away from the fission event with tremendous kinetic (mechanical) energy. As this happens in a fuel element, the atomic nuclei can travel only a tiny distance before slamming into nearby atoms. This activity is extremely violent on the atomic scale, and it generates a lot of thermal energy (heat). The heat will get fuel element very hot, and that thermal energy will be collected and carried away by the primary coolant in the reactor.
What causes air to become more unstable?
what is the only way air can become unstable
Does uranium need to be changed in order to be used?
Yes, the nuclear fuel from a nuclear reactor must be replaced at some intervals, because the fuel can be poisoned with neutron absorbers and the clad can become fragile and unsure; the "burned" fuel is recycled.
What is nuclear fuel residence time?
Generally speaking, the term residence time as applied to nuclear fuels speaks to the amount of time something like uranium (meaning 239U) will have to spend in the neutron flux of a breeder reactor to become transformed into fissile nuclear fuel. The geometry (size and shape) of the fuel pellets and the location in the reactor (the neutron flux density) will dictate how long the stuff will have to be left in there to produce the desired product.
What could happen when the uranium pellets in the rods ate the core of a nuclear reactor become overheated?
The containing metallic rod is melted; this is a severe accident, without sufficient cooling agent.
Why instrumentation validation important?
If a single instrument starts to stray, or vary, its signal could be compounded throughout the rest of the system. If several instruments begin to stray, then the whole system could become unstable. For example, if the thermoprobe on a nuclear reactor's core starts to read low, then the cooling system will 'back off' and allow the core to potentially reach too high a temperature.
What is nuclear isotopes?
A radioactive isotope is a form of an element that is unstable and eventually decays into a different element. For example, most Carbon has 6 protons and 6 neutrons, and is stable. This is called Carbon12.Carbon14 with 6 protons and 8 neutrons, is unstable and decays by releasing a beta particle from its nucleus to become a stable isotope, Nitrogen14. which has 7 protons and 7 neutrons.That refers to an isotope that is unstable - the atoms will decay after a while.
