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Nothing unusual.
The only thing vented into the air from a nuclear power plant is steam.
Water is used in the cooling process but is only applied to the outside of containers so it never becomes mixed with any dangerous chemicals. The clean water vapor is vented out into the air.
Any physical or chemical waste produced by a nuclear plant is completely enclosed and disposed of without contact with the outside air so there is no smell produced.
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoSmoke is produced by burning something. Nuclear power does not produce smoke since there is no burning. Uranium is an unstable molecule and it falls apart which is called fission; this produces heat. Water is heated and used to power generators. The cooling towers let out steam, containing only water.
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What is the difference between nuclear power plant and nuclear reactor?
It's really just a matter of degree, all reactors produce some power. Those used in a power plant will produce perhaps 3000 to 5000 Megawatts thermal. Low power reactors producing a few kilowatts are used for experiments, teaching in universities, and for producing radioisotopes by irradiating samples, but reactors in this sort of power level would not be harnessed to produce electricity, the heat produced if large enough would be removed and rejected to the atmosphere or to a water cooling circuit. This makes them simple to operate and to start and stop as required.
Can you get power from the radioactive element Uranium?
Yes, the radioactive decay of Uranium-235 is used to produce power in nuclear power plants.
What technology or equipment is needed to produce Nuclear Fission?
Nuclear rods, turbine, lectric transformers, power lines, nuclera power plant, LOTS OF WATER and containment chambers
Why dont we use nuclear fusion in nuclear power plants?
Because no one has been able to produce a continuous fusion reaction so far.
Annually how much carbon dioxide does nuclear power produce?
Total greenhouse gas emissions (most of it comes from carbon dioxide) from nuclear power is about 5.7 gCeq/kwh (grams of carbon equivalent per kWh of electricity produced). To calculate annual emission form nuclear power, you have to apply it to the electricity generation capacity of a nuclear power plant.
Do nuclear power plants produce whit or black smoke?
black smoke.
Does a CANDU produce nuclear or hydroelectric power?
nuclear power
What do nuclear power plants have to do with nuclear energy?
Nuclear power plants produce electricity by using nuclear energy
Where is nuclear How and where it is used?
Nuclear Power is used in power stations to produce electricity
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 advantage does nuclear power have over wind power?
Nuclear power can produce electricity in any weather.
What energy do nuclear power plants create?
They use nuclear energy to produce power for the grid.
Does a nuclear power plant produces electricity?
Yes, nuclear power plants produce electric power (electricity).
Uses of nuclear power?
To produce electricity
What Is produced in nuclear energy in power?
Nuclear power stations collect nuclear energy, and produce heat energy and electrical energy.
How does nuclear power plants produce electricity?
Using nuclear fission, generators are turned.
What do nuclear power stations produce very little of that are dangerous?
Nuclear waste.
