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The very first nuclear reactor was Chicago Pile 1. It was built for research and scientific use. The first nuclear reactor outside of a university was built (at Hanford, Washington) primarily to yield plutonium for the atomic bomb destined for Nagasaki, Japan.
Nuclear reactors were built primarily for electrical generation beginning in about 1951.
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How a nuclear power plant generates electricity?
A nuclear power plant generates electricity by turning turbines that turn generators. This is no different than fossil fueled plants. The difference in nuclear power is the source of the steam. Instead of a fossil fuel boiler, there is a nuclear reactor that uses the power of the release of binding energy (Strong Atomic Force) from the fissioning of (generally) Uranium-235. There are several designs. The two primary designs are the Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) and the Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). The BWR forms steam in the reactor vessel which is transported to the turbines. The spent steam is condensed, reheated, treated, and returned to the reactor. The PWR forms heated water in the reactor vessel which generates steam in a separate steam generator (heat exchanger) which then is transported to the turbines. The rest of the cycle is similar to the BWR, but the return water goes to the steam generators instead of the reactor.
Can the waste of nuclear energy be reused?
some:The plutonium and other transuranics can be recycled. They make excellent reactor fuel.The unburned uranium can be recycled.Many of the fission products could be separated for industrial and medical uses.
Who uses nuclear electric power?
32 countries in the world are using nuclear electric power.
What Power plant that uses uranium as a source of energy?
Uranium (or plutonium) is a source of energy (nuclear fuel) in nuclear power plants.
Is there a substitute for uranium for nuclear reactors?
Only plutonium! Is that any better?Actually all the transuranics can make suitable fuel for nuclear reactors, especially Americium. The Integral Fast Breeder(IFB) reactor was designed to reprocess Uranium and all the transuranics produced into fuel rods onsite, leaving only the short lived fission products as waste, which would only require storage for a couple centuries (not hundreds of thousands of years as current waste with the transuranics still in it does). Some of these fission products have industrial and/or medical uses and would be worth separating from the waste.
What is the difference between nuclear reactor and nuclearpower plant?
a nuclear reactor converts binding energy into heat. a nuclear power plant uses a nuclear reactor to generate electricity.
A nuclear reactor uses the energy from a controlled?
nuclear fission
When was the first nuclear reactor built?
The first demonstration nuclear reactor was built in USA by Enrico Fermi in Chicago Stadium. Fermi was an Italian Physicist, best known for his work on Chicago Pile-1 (the first nuclear reactor). on 26 June 1954, in the town of Obninsk, near Moscow in the former USSR, the first nuclear power plant was connected to an electricity grid to provide power to residences and businesses. Nuclear energy had crossed the divide from military uses to civilian applications.
What kind of things does a nuclear reactor power?
Anything that uses electricity
What is the difference between a bioreactor and nuclear reactor?
A nuclear reactor uses either nuclear fission or nuclear fusion to generate electricity, while bio-reactors use the excretions of many animals to generate electricity.
What is nucular reactor?
A nucular reactor is the engine that the penguins in Madagascar use to make a quick getaway. It uses nucular fuel, and Marty mistakes it for a nuclear reactor.
Name one type of nuclear reactor?
CANDU, a reactor type designed in Canada which uses heavy water as the primary coolant.
Could a reactor be fueled with americium?
The Russians are working on the problem of creating a nuclear reactor fuel out of americium, but they're still working the problem. In addition, they haven't built a reactor that uses americium as a nuclear fuel yet, either.
How does one use a breeder reactor?
It would be used as a more efficient version of a Nuclear Reactor. While a regular nuclear reactor requires almost a factor of 100 greater in fuel amounts, a Breeder reactor uses much less and produces less waste.
What are uses for nuclear reactions?
generate electricitysteam heating of nearby buildingsbombsbreeding reactor fueletc.
What are the negatives about using Nuclear Energy?
This is not correct. Assuming "Using Nuclear Energy" means using it to generate electricity in a reactor. A nuclear reactor is a power plant, that uses nuclear fission to eventually generate electricity. An atom bomb also uses nuclear fission to generate energy causing an explosion. However, due to fundamental differences between the two a nuclear reactor cannot explode like an atom bomb.
Are nuclear reactors and nuclear power plants the same?
Not really. It depends on what you are trying to do. A nuclear power plant is a power plant that uses a nuclear reactor as its source of energy. A nuclear reactor, on the other hand, is a more generalized term for a device that uses nuclear energy (specifically the release of binding energy from the Strong Atomic Force) to do something. In the general case, we use the reactor to generate energy for the power plant to use in generating electricity. Sometimes, we use the reactor for other, research type things, such as generating a neutron flux to study the physics of nuclide activation.
