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Electricity is made at a nuclear power station by creating a controlled nuclear chain reaction, fission, in the reactor core. This fission process generates heat, lots of it, due to the release of binding energy resulting from the loss of mass in the core. A coolant, usually water, keeps the temperature from reaching excessive levels. In the BWR (Boiling Water Reactor) that coolant flashes to steam. In the PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) that coolant heats other coolant which flashes to steam. The steam spins a turbine / generator which makes electricity. The steam, which has now been condensed back to water by the turbine and condensor is reheated and fed back to the core (BWR) or steam generators (PWR) to repeat the cycle.
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What happens to the energy of steam after it has been used in a powerstation?
after generating electricity its latent heat decreases
What percentage of us energy is made by nuclear power?
About 19 percent of electricity
How nuclear fuels can be use to generate electricity?
Nuclear fissions in nuclear fuels generate heat and 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.
How does nuclear reactor works to produce electricity?
how electricity is produced in a nuclear reactor
What is a nuclear powerstation?
A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station. The heat source is nuclear reactor. Its main point is to produce electricity.
Where does electricity from the powerstation go?
grid
How could you design a powerstation to take advantage of nuclear fission?
Within this power station, what are the control rods: What are they made from? What do they do? How do they do it?
What happens in a nuclear power plant?
A nuclear powerplant is a Thermal powerstation that uses a nuclear reactor to generate electricity. The method: A nuclear fission or fusion reaction happens which produces up to 650 to 700 Degrees Of heat when controlled. This massive amount of heat is then open to massive amounts of water that produces steam which in turn the turbines that produces up to 10,000 Mega Watts of electricity.
What happens to the energy of steam after it has been used in a powerstation?
after generating electricity its latent heat decreases
Is nuclear better than electricity?
nuclear is a type of electricity
What percentage of us energy is made by nuclear power?
About 19 percent of electricity
How nuclear fuels can be use to generate electricity?
Nuclear fissions in nuclear fuels generate heat and 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.
How does nuclear reactor works to produce electricity?
how electricity is produced in a nuclear reactor
What percentage of nuclear electricity is generated in the US?
About 25 percent of all nuclear electricity is generated in the US. France is second with about an eighth. About 20% of all electricity in the US is nuclear. Almost 80% of the electricity in France is nuclear.
Why was nuclear energy made?
Firstly to make the atom bomb in WW2. After that to make electricity
