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Is nuclear reactor used to produce heat for thermoelectric power?
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What is the difference between a nuclear power plant and a thermoelectric power plant?
A nuclear power plant uses thermal energy from a nuclear reactor to produce steam and drive a turbine/generator, and often has a capacity of more than 1000MWe from one reactor. I don't think there are any thermoelectric power plants, but small arrays of thermocouple devices are sometimes used to produce small amounts of power for instruments, usually in space vehicles with a radioactive source providing the thermal input.
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.
How much power does a nuclear plant produce?
Up to 1500MWe per reactor
What is the difference between nuclear power plant and nuclear reactor?
It's really just a matter of degree, all reactors produce some power. Those used in a power plant will produce perhaps 3000 to 5000 Megawatts thermal. Low power reactors producing a few kilowatts are used for experiments, teaching in universities, and for producing radioisotopes by irradiating samples, but reactors in this sort of power level would not be harnessed to produce electricity, the heat produced if large enough would be removed and rejected to the atmosphere or to a water cooling circuit. This makes them simple to operate and to start and stop as required.
What is the functions of a nuclear reactor?
Usually to provide thermal power in order to produce electricity, sometimes to produce radioisotopes
Block diagram of a nuclear power station?
The heart of a nuclear power plant is the nuclear reactor.
How does A nuclear reactor produce electricity by heat or actually generating the power itsself?
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Is Australia nuclear free?
There is a small reactor at Sydney used to produce radioisotopes. No power reactors.
What is the function of an electrical reactor?
A nuclear reactor contains a nuclear reaction, provides support for the control mechanisms for the reaction, and provides for the transfer of heat to machinery that will use it to produce electric power.
Does Canada have nuclear energy?
Canada has 7 nuclear power stations (some with more than one reactor) which produce about 15% of Canada's electrical power.
How fast does a nuclear fusion reactor work?
Do you mean how much power does it produce? None are working as yet.
What is the function of a nuclear reactor of a nuclear plant?
simply, the nuclear reactor is the source of heat (or steam) for the nuclear power plant.
