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Nuclear power plants produce electricity by using nuclear energy
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Uranium is a nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors.
Energy produced by nuclear power cannot be stored, it has to be used as soon as it is produced. This is done by producing steam from the thermal energy released and using this in a conventional power plant
Nuclear power plants convert nuclear energy to electrical.sometimes it can be used to enrich radioactive nuclei which can later used in missile warheads. But using thorium as a source of nuclear power we can't enrich nuclei but we can use for electrical power generation which might have more energy than former
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See www.nrc.gov, there is a list of all states with nuclear power reactors.
Nuclear energy is obtained by the fissioning of nuclei of uranium235, in a controlled chain reaction in a nuclear reactor, which produces heat that can be converted to electricity by normal power plant methods.
You don't 'save' energy by using these methods, you save non renewable resources, such as coal, oil and gas.
Spacecraft using nuclear power use the heat energy of Plutonium-238. The heat energy of the radioactive pellet of Plutonium-238 is converted into electricity.
Yes, they import it and put it in the reactor core where rods slow down the energy given off then it turns a generator which creates power
The USA started using nuclear energy in 1951