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What type of reactions or fuel did the Chernobyl nuclear plant use?
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How is nuclear power plant's fuel made?
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Where is nuclear fuel generated?
In what is called a finishing plant, the fuel is packaged in its final form for the intended purpose.
What is a use for Uranium fuel?
The use is to produce electricity from a nuclear reactor plant
Is nuclear energy and nuclear fuel different?
Nuclear fuel is the fuel used to produce nuclear energy.
What are the elements used to make the nuclear power plant?
Enriched uranium is the main fuel. Due to the extension of the article, a link below was created to access Wikipedia with full information about Nuclear Power Plant.
What is the main fuel for nuclear reactions in stars?
The main fuel for stars is hydrogen.
Can an improperly managed nuclear plant explode like a nuclear weapon?
No. A nuclear weapon requires a critical amount of highly enriched fuel to be rapidly brought together to cause a sudden explosion. Nuclear plants use low enriched fuel which could never cause a nuclear explosion, and this fuel is dispersed through the reactor in any case so it could not suddenly come together. Any nuclear plant explosions (like Chernobyl) are caused by the presence of high pressure steam and water circuits, not the fact of it being a nuclear plant, though certainly if there is an explosion of a pressure circuit and hence a loss of coolant, and disruption of the nuclear reactor, radioactivity may escape from the plant. This is the chief preoccupation of designers and operators, to keep the plant safe and prevent this ever happening.
Does fuel rods slow down nuclear reactions?
No, but control rods do.
What is the condition called when fuel rods in a nuclear power plant generate so much heat that they start to melt?
Meltdown, but this is an extreme fault which is avoided, and has happened very rarely, like at Chernobyl.
What produces energy for a nuclear power plant?
The energy source for a nuclear power plant is the fissioning of nuclear fuel, which is normally uranium.
Why is uranium a non- renewable fuel?
Because uranium atoms disappear by nuclear fission an other nuclear reactions in nuclear reactors.
What is the uraniums use in nuclear power plant?
Uranium is used as nuclear fuel.
Can a nuclear power plant burn uranium?
A nuclear power plant does use uranium as fuel It "burns" it in the nuclear sense not the chemical sense
How is a nuclear power plant's fuel made?
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How is nuclear power plant's fuel made?
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What is the atom of a nuclear power plant?
Uranium is the fuel that is used.
What are the fuel sources for a nuclear power plant?
Natural uranium
