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All power reactors are thermal reactors except few ones that are fast nuclear reactors.
There are currently (year 2013) 31 countries having nuclear power reactors. The rest are not having nuclear power.
About 77%
After explosion in 1986 some reactors continue to work. It was running until 2000 when decontamination processes started.
There are 104 commercial nuclear power reactors in the US. See the related question below.
What do truck-mounted infrared cameras look for in substations and on power lines
Most plants have two reactors but some have more
Some nuclear power reactors work with low enriched uranium; CANDU reactors work with natural uranium.
All power reactors are thermal reactors except few ones that are fast nuclear reactors.
there are no bad things about the nuclear power reactors
No. Our reactors are fission reactors. We haven't yet mastered fusion reactors for power.
1933, but it was not until after WW2 ended that work was begun on designing usable power reactors.
No, at least not for power reactors
They can physically be located almost anywhere. Capacitor banks are typically attached to the bus in substations. Reactors are often tapped off lines.
Actually they just stay there. Seriously, power lines start from a power station (thermal, hydel, nuclear, etc.) and extend to consuption areas. major Substations in say (a state) is connected to substations in towns or town areas. There can be several levels of substations. From the lowest level substation the lines connect to houses, offices, commercial entities, etc.
For many years, the city of Vijayawada has had a need for more power substations and the government is trying to get two to three more built soon. For now, there is only one substation that powers the city.
See the list in link belowThere are six nuclear power stations in India, with a total of seventeen nuclear reactors in them. There are also six research and production reactors, but such reactors are not usually included in counts of reactors in a country because they are small and do not typically put power on the electric grid._______________________________________________________An updated AnswerThere are 21 operating power reactors in India (with total electric power 5308 MW) and 6 nuclear power reactors under construction (with total electric power 3907 MW) per the statistics of the International Atomic Energy Agency as of April 2004.