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∙ 12y agoThey both employ steam turbine/generators operating on the Rankine cycle.
They both produce similar amounts of radioactive waste:
Some of this nuclear waste escapes or is dumped into the environment, so both power plants also irradiate you. Coal power plants actually irradiate you 100 times as much as nuclear power plants, since their waste is not as tightly regulated by the government:
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∙ 12y agoThe similarities between nuclear power stations and fossil fuel power stations lie in the steam and condensate systems, the turbine-generator (although the nuclear version is optimized for the lower pressure steam that is used), and the electrical power controls.
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∙ 15y agoThey all have electrical generators which are connected to the outside grid lines
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∙ 13y agoThey both use steam turbines coupled to generators. Some fossil plants particularly natural gas ones however use gas turbines.
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∙ 12y agoCurrent nuclear power plants use identical type steam turbines, electric generators, and steam condensers/cooling towers as used in other thermal power plants.
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∙ 9y agoHydroelectricity and fossil fuels are similar only the way that both of them are energy provider.Other than that there are no similarities in these things.
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∙ 6y agoBoth are natural and renewable sources of energy.
Nuclear fuels are extremely dangerous and the station could explode.
Nuclear fuel has a higher energy density than fossil fuels.
Nuclear power is NOT a fossil fuel.
Gas stations start up the quickest because they use gas turbines and do not require water to be boiled up to produce steam.
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Nuclear energy conserves the use of fossil fuel because if there is a nuclear power station there is no need to burn fossil fuel in that region.
The difference is in the name; nuclear power plants produce electricity via a nuclear reaction producing head to turn a turbine, whereas coal fired power plants burn coal to produce the same efffect.
A nuclear station uses the energy from nuclear fission to generate power, but fossil fuel stations burn fossil fuels that release CO2 into the atmosphere, instead of the steam that nuclear plants produce. Therefore, nuclear power is more enviormental friendly, though it has some very radioactive waste products that can be harmful if not disposed properly.
The difference is only the material that is being used to generate electricity.
Nuclear fuels are extremely dangerous and the station could explode.
fossil fuel is made by the nature and nuclear fuel is not made by the nature
Power plants that burn fossil fuels and nuclear power plants are very similar in their manner of creating steam. The main difference between the two types of power plants are that fossil fuel plants emit more pollution.
Nuclear fuel has a higher energy density than fossil fuels.
This is typical of nuclear plants where the fuel costs are low compared with fossil fuel costs.
Nuclear power is NOT a fossil fuel.
They both use steam turbine/generators
Nuclear energy does not come from fossil fuels