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Fuel rods containing uranium are placed close together, causing a nuclear reaction as the uranium fissions. This produces heat. Heat is transferred to cooling water, making steam. Steam spins a turbine onnected to a generator.
Sharon Fisher
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∙ 10y agoNuclear fission plants works as follows: Nuclear fission; that is the splitting of heavy nuclei (as U-235) when bombarded by neutrons; results in loss of mass (or mass defect) that transforms into energy according to formula E = mc2 (c is light velocity). The resulting energy manifests itself as heat energy that produces steam. The steam spins the turbines that spins electric generators and hence producing electricity.
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What does fission happen in?
Nuclear reactor
Explain the working principle of a nuclear reactor?
Nuclear fission is the working principle under which the nuclear reactors operate.
Where can you harness uranium?
In a nuclear fission reactor power plant
Mechanism and container for controlled fission is called?
A nuclear reactor
What are some nonexamples fo nuclear fission?
Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR), Boiling Water Reactor (BWR)
How a fusion reactor would be similar to a fission reactor?
explain how a fusion reactor would be similar to a fission reaction
What are the basic feartures of a fission reactor?
The fission reactor is composed of:Nuclear fuel,reactor coolants,neutron moderator (optional)control elementsshieldingmeasurement instrumentssupporting structures... etc
Is fusion controllable as fission is reactor?
no
What does fission happen in?
Nuclear reactor
Which section of a nuclear reactor does nuclear fission occurs?
The fission happens in the fuel, which is usually in fuel rods inside the reactor. The rods are spaced at a particular distance apart and fill the reactor.
Explain the working principle of a nuclear reactor?
Nuclear fission is the working principle under which the nuclear reactors operate.
What is possibly happen to neutrons produce in a fission reactor?
The neutrons produced by fission in a nuclear fission reactor during the process of thermalization to be available for a new generation of fission could be subject to:absorption in fuelabsorption in non fuel reactor components (moderator, clad, structural material, ...)fast leakageresonance capture in U-238fast fission in U-238thermal leakage
What is better solar energy fission reactor or fusion reactor?
solar is a billion times better.
What type of reactor produces more fuel than it consumes?
a fission nuclear reactor -binky
What are the main advantage of a fusion reactor compared to a fission reactor?
It doesn't produce radioactive byproducts.
Does breeder reactor consists of fission reaction?
yes
How does nuclear energy originate?
In a fission reactor, it originates from the fission of uranium 235 or plutonium 239
