There is a new reactor in Europe, a joint EU project, that will be producing a net increase in power when opperational (which has not yet been done on any large scale). There are also plans for a reactor of a similar design that will commercialy produce electricity which will be fed onto the grid.
By going to a nuclear an. Asking somebody this question :D
Sure, you can get a tan from it, since the Sun is a big fusion power reactor. In the near future we will be able to build fusion reactors here on Earth. Google "ITER" to see how it's going. In the meantime I suppose you can say the fusion power is actually solar energy.
Sounds like a star, but it is nuclear fusion there, not fission A planet is held together by its gravitational field and there is nuclear FISSION going on inside it producing geothermal heat.
The stars produce their heat from nuclear fusion reactions. Work on earth to produce controllable nuclear fusion is concentrating on one particular reaction, between deuterium and tritium, because it is the easiest to get going (though hard enough!). Stars operate with other reactions but all of the nuclear fusion type. You can read more in Wikipedia 'Nuclear fusion'
Up to now only in H-bombs. Experiments in fusion are on going though.
Nuclear fusion. Specifically, hydrogen gets converted to helium.Nuclear fusion. Specifically, hydrogen gets converted to helium.Nuclear fusion. Specifically, hydrogen gets converted to helium.Nuclear fusion. Specifically, hydrogen gets converted to helium.
Nuclear waste can not case an explosion is it's spent form. Once a reactor is done with Uranium rods as fuel they are put into lead lined containers and transported to spent fuel storage. A nuclear reactor can explode from hydrogen build up in the containment vessel, this is due to the reaction going on in the steam generation process, this does not happen in nuclear waste storage facilities.
It takes a huge amount of pressure and temperature to get started and maintain stably. Fusion experiments kept going so far are highly inefficient and take more energy to do than they produce.
A meltdown is both good and bad:Good reactor design uses the meltdown to disassemble the fuel into a subcritical mass, causing the reactor to automatically shutdown.Bad reactor design can allow the fuel to enter places it should not go, possibly causing steam explosions, contamination outside the reactor containment, etc.
No. Mass never changes, except during nuclear fission and fusion.
I believe that it is the fission (not fusion) of particles. Essentially it is like nuclear bombs going off but with much more energy.
People living within the nearest periphery of a nuclear plant, should be taught about the precautions to be taken against the impending risk from the nuclear reactors of the plants. By this way, Japan was able to minimize loss of human lives during their recent nuclear reactor emission. Using of masks, going underground to evade poisonous gases,spraying chemicals to neutralize the effect of nuclear reactor emissions are few of the steps generally undertaken during an eventuality.