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A nuclear power plant and a steam engine are similar in that they both convert thermal energy into mechanical energy. In a steam engine, fuel is burned to heat water, creating steam that drives a piston or turbine. Similarly, a nuclear power plant uses nuclear fission to generate heat, which produces steam that turns turbines to generate electricity. Both systems ultimately rely on the expansion of steam to perform work.
First it is converted to heat. This will then usually drive some variation of a steam engine.
A car engine, a coal or petroleum power plant, a nuclear reactor.
Nuclear Reaction: A Nuclear reaction in the nuclear core generates great amounts of energy in the form of heat. This energy is used to heat up water to steam to drive a steam turbine engine which generates rotary motion to a shaft which is mechanically connected to turn an Alternator which generates the electrical power.
You can transform thermal energy to electrical energy in a power plant, chemical energy to mechanical energy in an internal combustion engine, or nuclear energy into thermal energy in a nuclear reactor. These are just three examples.
First it is converted into heat. This is then usually converted to other types of energy through a steam engine.
The energy source in a steam engine is the heat source that converts water into steam thus creating pressure. The heat source itself can be a coal, wood, gas or petroleum burner but can also be something different like a solar panel or a nuclear reactor (most nuclear reactors are themselves steam engines-generators).
Nuclear energy released in a fission reactor results in the fuel heating up, then it is simply a matter of transferring this heat to some form of heat engine, usually a steam turbine operating on the Rankine cycle.
We use nuclear fission in nuclear reactors to tap nuclear energy.