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If the reactor is in steady operation, not refuelling, or shutting down/starting up, I would think about 5 on the reactor itself, there will be others in the turbine hall and other equipment. There will be the reactor desk operator, his supervisor in overall charge, one or two plant attendants, and probably a maintenance engineer doing routine checks. This would be per shift, and there would be 4 or 5 shift teams to cover 24/7.
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What is the place where controlled nuclear fission reactions take place?
In the core of a nuclear reactor
Is radiation still leaking from the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Japan?
US scientists determined this tear that the reactor is still leaking small amounts of radioactive materials into the ocean. The cleanup for this disaster could take as long as 40 years.
How do you make tritium?
Generally, tritium is commercially produced by neutron activation of Lithium-6 in a nuclear reactor. Particularly high neutron energies are not required for this reaction to take place. It can also be a byproduct of heavy water reactors, as neutrons can be captured by the deuterons in the heavy water.
How many nuclear warheads would it take to equal single supernova?
Cannot be answered as different nuclear explosives and different supernovas have different yields.
What happens when a nuclear reactor reaches the end of its life?
When a reactor has burned enough of its fuel that it cannot be made to go critical by pulling all the control rods all the way out, it has reached the end of its useful life. There is a lot of unburned fuel left in the fuel elements, but not enough to achieve criticality the way the reactor core is set up. (Only a small percentage of the fuel is actually burned.) Usually the operators of a nuclear plant will take a reactor out of service and refuel it a bit before this. And military reactors will be taken offline sooner and refueled because of the requirement that the reactor be able to be brought critical at what is called the "peak xenon" point. Generally speaking, the core is removed and put in a storage pool that provided cooling and shielding. The core will remain there until it can be disassembled into fuel bundles and the bundles packed up and moved to a long-term storage facility for a century or a few. It is unusual that the fuel elements are reprocessed to remove the remaining fuel because of the presence of a lot of extremely radioactive fission fragments.
What is the place where controlled nuclear fission reactions take place?
In the core of a nuclear reactor
What type of reaction take place in a nuclear reactor?
Nuclear fission, not to be confused with fusion.
What is Reactor number four?
The #4 reactor is the reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Pripyat, Ukraine) that exploded on April 26, 1986. It is still the worst nuclear accident to ever take place anywhere.
How can we make power on saturn?
The most practical way is to take a nuclear reactor with you when you go there.
How are nuclear reactions that take place in the sun different from the nuclear reactions that take place in a nuclear reactor?
sun, fusion of hydrogen nuclei making helium nuclei (not radioactive)nuclear reactor, fission of uranium nuclei making a wide variety of different fission product isotopes having mass numbers from 72 to 161 (all very radioactive)
Does the atomic bomb produce more energythan a nuclear reactor?
That would depend on the yield of the bomb, the power rating of the reactor, and the lifetime of the reactor. Bombs release all their energy in microseconds, reactors take years or decades.
Where does nuclear waste go from a nuclear submarine?
In the United States, when a nuclear submarine has "run out of" nuclear fuel for its reactor (this takes many years), the reactor may be opened, and the spent fuel sent for reprocessing at the Naval Reactors facility at the Idaho National Laboratory. The reactor's core may then be refueled. This process can take some time, and handling the spent fuel is dangerous and requires complex procedures to prevent contamination. If the submarine is to be overhauled, or retired, the fuel is removed for reprocessing, and the reactor compartment is cut out of the submarine, sealed, and moved for disposal to the Department of Energy's Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, where they are kept in dry storage. The submarine may be welded back together, or the sections floated, until a new compartment and reactor are installed, or the vessel is cut up for scrap. Low level radioactive waste may be handled in other ways.
What part of the nuclear powerplant does the chain reaction occur?
In the reactor core, which is the volume filled with the fuel assemblies
What kind of energy does the sun take in?
The sun can be described as a nuclear fusion reactor - converting hydrogen into helium under intense heat and pressure.
What supplies did it take to invent nuclear fission?
The first reactor in 1942 was a simple pile of graphite with channels for the fuel elements, which were natural metallic uranium
What are the health hazards of the nuclear reactor?
A nuclear reactor emits radiation. In a PWR reactor, if the reactor temprature is around 650 Degrees, The emission near the reactor core is 2.57 Roentgen. That is the amount of radiation a human is exposed to in around 20 Years. There is also the dust, This dust if inhaled will cause cancer. If a Nuclear Powerplant explodes the story is different. Lets take chernobyl NPP for instance. The vincinity of the reacter core after explosion was 30,000 Roentgens per hour. That is 300 Sieverts per hour. That is enough to kill a man in 20 seconds. The fuel fragments that were realeased outward from the explosion the reactor had 15,000-20,000 Roentgens Pewr hour, And these fragments were laying on the ground after the explosion. Enough to kill a man in 30 seconds.
Why did the neutrino take so long to discover?
Lack of lab equipment, Cowan Reines proved the existence of the neutrino in 1956 but to do that they needed a nuclear reactor as a source of a neutrino flux
