How does a Nuclear power station produce power?

Answer 1

Usually a Nuclear Power plant has a large cooling tower that has a sort of wide hour-glass shape to it. These cooling towers are very huge - say several hundred feet high and just as wide. I live in Delaware and we can see the New Jersey Cooling tower from many miles away across the bay. But occasionally a Nuclear Power plant may not have need of a cooling tower and will instead make use of a nearby lake or river to help cool the reactor such as the Robinson Plant in Hartsville South Carolina. All plants though, do have reactors. These giant facilities are usually dome shaped and house the reactor core that produces the heat and electricity.

Answer 2

The reactor core consists of fuel rods in a matrix arrangement, the spaces between the rods being filled with a moderator. This is usually light water but can be heavy water or graphite in gas cooled reactors. The moderator slows down the neutrons produced in fission, which allows more fissions to occur in Uranium 235, so that a chain reaction can continue. Every fission produces heat, so that the reactor core heats the coolant, which is then used to raise steam in steam raising units external to the reactor. In the PWR the light water is also the coolant, in gas cooled reactors CO2 is used. The steam produced is used in steam turbines which operate as in fossil fuelled stations.

Answer 3

A nuclear power station uses heat given off by the controlled fission of enriched uranium.

The heat is used to boil water, the steam blows through the vanes of a turbine,

and the turbine spins an electrical generator.

Answer 4

A nuclear power station produces power by generating steam from the heat generated by fissionable materials, usually Uranium-235. The reactor core contains the fuel assemblies, the control rods that control the reaction, and the primary system coolant, usually water in a pressurized water reactor or a boiling water reactor. The steam is used to power a steam turbine, which powers the electrical generator. The steam plant is very similar to a coal or oil fueled steam plant, the only difference being the source of energy (heat). The advantage of the nuclear power plant is that nuclear fission creates relatively small amounts of radioactive waste as opposed to the vast expulsion of carbon dioxide (the primary greenhouse gas) from coal, oil, and natural gas (fossil fuel) power plants.

Answer 5

A nuclear power station uses heat given off by the controlled fission of enriched uranium.

The heat is used to boil water, the steam blows through the vanes of a turbine,

and the turbine spins an electrical generator.

Answer 6

A nuclear power station produces power by using the heat generated from nuclear reactions within its reactor core to produce steam. This steam then drives a turbine connected to a generator, which produces electricity. The electricity is then sent out to the power grid for distribution.

Answer 7

Nuclear power stations have stacks that look like silos. Large plumes of steam can be seen rising from the stacks on the power plants.

Answer 8

It has no visible appearance

Answer 9

It is not visible