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A nuclear power plant is essentially a high tech steam turbine. The core is made up of nuclear pellets in a formation where they release neutrons, striking each other and make a fission reaction. This heats up the water, generating steam. The steam then is used to power the steam turbine. The steam (or hot gaseous H20 molecules striking each other) contains the kinetic energy. So YES
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Which best describes the energy conversion that happens when hydroelectric power plants are used to make electricity?
Kinetic energy to electrical energy
What type of energy is a nuclear power plant used to make?
Electrical energy
Is nuclear energy potential energy or kinectic energy?
Until converted, it is potential energy. However, to make nuclear energy domestically useful it is converted into thermal (thermodynamic) energy (heat), which, in turn, is converted into electrical energy, both of which are kinetic energy.
What percent of nuclear powerplants make energy in the US by coal?
Zero percent of nuclear power plants make energy by coal, US or otherwise.
What factors make nuclear power unattractive as an energy source?
its dangerous
What energy conversions take place in a nuclear power station?
Not sure what you mean with "transfer into energy". No new energy is created, and no energy is destroyed. Nuclear fission converts nuclear energy (a type of potential energy) available in the atoms, into other types of energy, like heat.
Is nuclear energy thermal energy or potential?
Until converted, it is potential energy. However, to make nuclear energy domestically useful it is converted into thermal (thermodynamic) energy (heat), which, in turn, is converted into electrical energy, both of which are kinetic energy.
How do you use nuclear energy in a sentence?
Nuclear energy is obtained by the fissioning of nuclei of uranium235, in a controlled chain reaction in a nuclear reactor, which produces heat that can be converted to electricity by normal power plant methods.
What are four types of energy that make up internal energy?
The four types of energy that make up internal energy are kinetic energy, potential energy, chemical energy, and nuclear energy. These different forms of energy contribute to the overall internal energy of a system.
What planet has energy created by nuclear fusion?
the only planet that is known to make nuclear power at this point is earth.
What type of electricity does a nuclear power plant make?
nuclearly formulated energy
The energy in uranium is used to make electricity in a nuclear power plant. How is the energy stored in uranium?
in the nucleus
