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It produces about 20 percent of US electricity and about 15 percent world wide. It does not produce greenhouse gases so is preferable to burning coal, for that reason. It can be expanded by building more plants, and with easy access to natural gas diminishing this is useful
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Does fire have nuclear energy?
No, fire is chemical energy not nuclear
What can nuclear energy become?
Nuclear waste. Consumable Energy. Heat.
What energy sources became important to industry in chronological order?
Water Steam Coal Oil Nuclear
How do you use nuclear energy in a sentence?
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.
What are the economic impacts of uranium nuclear fission?
The nuclear energy obtained from uranium or plutonium is the most important alternative to fossil fuels. Oil and methane will be exhausted in less than 100 years. Wind, geothermal, solar, organic wastes etc. are useful but not serious alternative for 10 billions inhabitants.
What is Uranium energy used for?
Uranium is used as nuclear fuel in nuclear reactors.
What is the energy production in the us?
Uranium is important in nuclear energy.
Is nuclear energy important for the world?
Yes.
How does nuclear engery affect the economy?
The nuclear energy is now the most important source of alternative energy.
What do you find uranium's?
Because uranium is very important for nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.
What type of nuclear energy is more important for life on earth?
Nuclear fusion in the sun
Why is nuclear fusion important to life on earth?
Life on Earth gets its energy from the Sun, which produces the energy through nuclear fusion.
What is potential energy important?
Potential energy that is important in practice includes: * Gravitational potential energy * Elastic energy * Chemical energy (including food energy) * Nuclear energy
How is nuclear fusion important in stars?
That's how stars get their energy.
How is nuclear energy good for communities?
If these communities have not oil, methane, coal, hydroelectric power the nuclear energy is very important to produce electricity or heat.
What is one advantage of uranium?
The most important advantage of uranium is the release of fission energy. This phenomenon is the source of energy in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
What is one of the most important applications of nuclear energy?
To produce electricity
