Not necessarily
Have you ever heard of the Chernobyl power plant? A coal fired plant can't produce a disaster of that magnitude, and people worry about the potential consequences.
No. It produces less.
1 kg of U-235 will produce as much energy as 1500 tons of coal
To produce energy more than any other source can produce. A handful of Uranium can produce enough energy as the same as 4000 Train Load of coal [Given that each train load has around 15,000 Tons of Coal.]
Both power plants generate electricity, but a fossil fuel power plant burns coal, oil, or gas to produce heat that boils water into steam to drive a turbine, while a nuclear power plant uses nuclear reactions to heat water into steam. Nuclear plants produce no greenhouse gas emissions, while fossil fuel plants do. However, nuclear plants produce radioactive waste that needs to be safely managed for a long time.
1 kg uranium 235 = 3 000 t coal
The uranium has nuclear energy and the coal has chemical energy. Nuclear is thousands of times more powerful.
yes a coal is nature nuclear uses lots of power Process for production of power from coal is very inefficient , More over it produces lot of carbon dioxide in to atmosphere (harmful green house gas). While Process for production of power from Nuclear plant is very good when compared with coal power. But initial and maintenance cost is very high. Unit cost for coal power is more economical than nuclear power. So economically coal power station is better. But on the basis of efficiency Nuclear power stations are good. When the deaths caused by the two types of mining are considered, coal fired systems have a much higher overall death rate. But the coal mining industry is improving this.
Think of coal like wood. In a wood stove or furnace, wood is burned to produce heat. Coal contains more energy and is cheaper that wood, however wood is renewable. The large coal power plants that run use coal to produce heat by burning it, heating water. When water heats up to steam, it has more pressure. This pressure is used to turn generators. The electricity produced will be direct current. The power plant will have a converter to change the DC into AC, Alternating Current.
Coal fired plants.
No. Nuclear power is more efficient because nuclear power is used as splitting atoms, making big bursts of energy, whereas coal power is simply burning coal. So nuclear power uses uranium fission to create energy (electricity), whereas coal power burns coal, emitting carbon. (Mind you, nuclear energy leaves behind radioactive waste - that is arguably easier to deal with for the time being. Not to mention that accidents at nuclear plants can have devastating environmental effects.
Coal releases about 14-15,000 btu's of heat per pound. This will on average produce about 12 lbs of high quality superheated steam. With a **steam rate of an engine at about 4 lbs of steam per kilowatt produced, this coal plant can produce about 3 kilowatts per pound of coal burned. So to produce 10 MW of electricity this hypothetical plant will burn about 3,334 lbs. of coal per hour. In a day the coal consumed will be about 80, 000 lbs or 40 tons. *Actual fuel conditions, combustion efficiency, boiler efficiency and engine efficiency would need to be determined for any particular power plant to determine actual coal usage in that plant. **steam rates of different power plants can range from about 3.5 lbs steam/ KW to more than 10 lbs of steam/ KW.