Nuclear Power Station? But that's three words.
That rocket has NUCLEAR POWER!?
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, where a nuclear power plant in Japan experienced a meltdown following a severe earthquake and tsunami, leading to widespread environmental and health consequences.
I can give you several sentences.The nuclear reactor provides energy for our state.The nuclear family is becoming less common.Scientists studied the nuclear reaction.
The word "nuke" can mean a nuclear power plant or a nuclear weapon.As of January 2013, there are 437 nuclear power plants in operation in the world.Because countries with nuclear weapons are secretive about how many they have, the exact number of nuclear weapons is not known. The Federation of American Scientists estimates there are more than 17,000 nuclear warheads in the world as of 2012.
As of July 2008, there were more than 430 operating nuclear power plants and, together, they provided about 15 percent of the world's electricity in 2007. Despite all the cosmic energy that the word "nuclear" invokes, power plants that depend on atomic energy don't operate that differently from a typical coal-burning power plant. Both heat water into pressurized steam, which drives a turbine generator. The key difference between the two plants is the method of heating the water. While older plants burn fossil fuels, nuclear plants depend on the heat that occurs during nuclear fission, when one atom splits into two.
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Uranium is a scientific word that is also used with nuclear power.
Fission is the word you are looking for, but the less massive nuclei of the daughter atoms are usually far less stable than the nucleus of the parent, which is why nuclear waste from plant that uses uranium as fuel is extremely dangerous but nuclear fuel for the plant is not.
Nuclear power relies on the process of nuclear fission, where an atom's nucleus is split, releasing a large amount of energy. This energy is used to generate heat, which in turn produces steam to drive turbines connected to a generator that produces electricity. The use of nuclear reactions differentiates nuclear power from traditional forms of energy production.
The power plant was unsafely for the kids.
proliferation of radio active nuclear waste For US nuclear power plants, this answer is incorrect. The high level waste, which is the spent fuel rods, are under tight control and are kept cool and protected as they decay. The likelyhood of their contribution to a disaster is quite low. The above answer used the word "proliferation", which is associated with countries or groups who do not have nuclear weapons somehow gaining the knowledge and technology. Spent fuel is a poor source for weapons grade nuclear material due to the high levels of radioactivity, which make working with the material a deadly job, and the fact that the plutonium in the spent fuel is not weapons grade. Proliferation is not a likely danger. The most likely disaster is a steam leak which can burn the operators or a coolant leak from the primary plant. Neither of these events constitute a "disaster". Nuclear power plants are much more fearful when Hollywood designs them than the real things are. == ==