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For a really good explanation of this watch the history channels power plants episode. it is available on i tunes and it explains the entire process.

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Where is the largest nuclear energy producing plant?

The largest nuclear energy producing plant in the world is located in Kashiwazaki and Kariwa, Japan. It is owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Company.


What is the energy released from a nuclear power plant?

Electric. The nuclear energy produces heat, heat boils water, steam drives turbine, turbine makes electircity.


What is an example of the transfer from nuclear energy to mechanical energy?

Nuclear energy is used to boil water in order to produce steam. The steam is used to drive a turbine that can either be mechanically hooked up, i.e. the propeller on a nuclear submarine, or the turbine can be linked to a generator which then powers an electric motor.


What type of energy does a nuclear power plant produce?

A nuclear power plant produces electricity by harnessing the energy released from nuclear fission reactions in the reactor core. This process generates heat, which is used to produce steam that drives turbines connected to generators to produce electricity.


How impossible to use nuclear energy?

Using nuclear energy is possible, and in fact being done. It has been done since the 1940s. The first nuclear electric plant came on line some time after that, but I worked at one in the 1980s.


What type of energy transformation occurs in a nuclear power plant?

In a nuclear power plant, nuclear energy is transformed into heat energy through nuclear fission. This heat energy is then used to produce steam, which drives turbines connected to generators to produce electricity. So, the energy transformation in a nuclear power plant is from nuclear energy to heat energy to electrical energy.


How does a nuclear power plant transfer energy?

A nuclear power plant generates electricity through a process called nuclear fission, where uranium atoms split to release energy in the form of heat. This heat is used to boil water and produce steam, which drives a turbine connected to a generator. The generator then converts the mechanical energy from the turbine into electrical energy.


Can nuclear energy work with other forms of energy?

Nuclear energy is converted to electrical energy in a nuclear power plant.


What is the most efficient power source Hydro Thermal or Nuclear?

Since hydropower involves the direct change of stored potential kinetic energy into electricity, rather than requiring going through a thermal transfer stage (i.e. heat->kinetic->electric vs kinetic->electric) as in nuclear or geothermal, the "efficiency" of a hydropower plant is certainly higher than a nuclear or geothermal plant. In terms of energy produced per unit of input source (i.e. fuel - water in the case of hydro, steam in the case of geothermal, and fissionable fuel in the case of nuclear), nuclear wins by a massive margin (on the order of millions of times more efficient).


How is electricity produce inside a nuclear plant?

Nuclear fission produces heat energy that produces steam The steam spins the turbines that spins electric generators and hence producing electricity.


What type of energy does the steam in the electric plant have?

electric plants have electromagnetic energy


How would you solve Japan's nuclear power or energy problem that has arisen after the earthquake and tsunami?

Get some massive wireless energy transfer devise and set one up on the moon and one in japan. Transfer power from a massive nuclear power plant on the moon to Japan and hook everyone up to it.