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What is an advantage of coal power plants over nuclear power plants?
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Coal Power plants are cheaper to build.
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What kind energy does a power plant have?
It depends on the type of power plant. Some of the most common is coal (which is used to make steam to create power) one of the least common in the us is nuclear power.
Thermal efficiency in a coal fired power plant?
It can be up to 40 percent in modern plants, less in old ones
What are the emissions from coal combustion at thermal power plants?
Oxides of Nitrogen Oxides of Sulphur
What is LDO of power plant?
Light Diesel Oil is used initially to ignite the coal in the boilers
What is the advantage of afbc boiler over pf boiler?
afbc has high turn down ratio,burner arrangement is simple,low grade coal can be burnt efficiently,so2 emission can be controlled,
What is an advantage of nuclear power plants over coal power plant?
Coal Power plants are cheaper to build.
Which produces more radioactivity in the atmosphere coal fire power plants or nuclear power plants?
Coal fired plants.
Compare and contrast coal power plants and energy in hearing?
coal uses fossil fuels and nuclear power plants doesn't
Does the nuclear power station provides cleaner more efficient energy?
The main advantage of nuclear power is that it does not depend on manufacturing carbon dioxide from carbon fuels, as gas, oil and coal power plants do, so nuclear power plants save millions of tons of CO2 being dumped into the atmosphere.
Do nuclear power plants pollute more than coal power plants?
No. Nuclear power is more efficient because nuclear power is used as splitting atoms, making big bursts of energy, whereas coal power is simply burning coal. So nuclear power uses uranium fission to create energy (electricity), whereas coal power burns coal, emitting carbon. (Mind you, nuclear energy leaves behind radioactive waste - that is arguably easier to deal with for the time being. Not to mention that accidents at nuclear plants can have devastating environmental effects.
How do the three types of power plants make electricity?
Nuclear, coal-fired, and hydroelectric power plants provide electricity.
Why were Nuclear Power Stations made?
Nuclear power plants were made in the hope of providing a more efficient source of electricity than is obtained from coal powered plants.
What percent of nuclear powerplants make energy in the US by coal?
Zero percent of nuclear power plants make energy by coal, US or otherwise.
What are the different kinds of power plants?
Coal fired, Nuclear Power, Gas Fired, Hydro, Wind Power.
What waste problems of nuclear power plants is NOT a problem with a coal burning power plant?
fear of the waste.
How many nuclear power plants are in Alberta?
There are none, Because we use coal or gasoline to power our generators.
How much coal does a nuclear power station use per year?
A nuclear power station does not use coal to generate the heat to generate electric power. That nuclear power station uses a nuclear fission reactor as the heat source, and it will use no coal at all. There is an indirect use of coal by nuclear power plants. For example, in the United States, nearly all of the fuel for nuclear plants is enriched using power from a dedicated coal burning power plant. That plant, interestingly, is rated as having the highest level of pollutants of any coal plant in the country. Nevertheless, the amount of coal used is very, very small, when considered in terms of its amount per power consumed. Nuclear power plants also consume fossil fuels in many other ways during their lifetimes. These include construction, mining, refinement, enrichment (as mentioned above), decommissioning, transportation and operations, decommissioning, and waste disposal. Any of these could consume some amount of coal. Current estimates of the greenhouse gas emissions related to nuclear power plants seem to average about a quarter the amount produced by combined cycle natural gas plants with cogeneration, or about a tenth of that of coal plants.
