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How is the international thermonuclear reactor used to generate electricity?
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∙ 13y ago
I think you are running ahead of things! If you mean ITER, which is the next stage in this quest, and has just started building, this will only be an experiment and won't have any capability to generate electricity. I doubt if that will happen for another 50 years or so, if ever indeed.
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∙ 13y ago
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How does nuclear reactor works to produce electricity?
how electricity is produced in a nuclear reactor
Is nuclear power linked to the atomic bomb?
Only in that to make plutonium or tritium for nuclear bombs you need a reactor. While the reactors that make these materials can also be used to generate electricity, they usually don't. Also the types of reactors usually used to generate electricity are not usually designed to efficiently make these materials.
How fast does nuclear power produce electricity?
With a nuclear reactor running at operating temperature and with all the associated systems on line, the reactor can increase its power output in seconds to accommodate a larger demand for electric power. If we have to start up the reactor and warm up all the steam lines and such, it takes longer to begin to generate electricity. Nuclear power generator plants generate heat, which heats a closed circulating liquid that is radioactive. That heat is transferred to another liquid, which is not radioactive, is converted to steam, which turns turbine generators which generates electricity. Once everything is up and running, it all happens at a fast rate. A much less efficient method, but quicker and less complicated, directs the nuclear plants heat to thermocouples or some similar technology to generate electricity immediately.
What happens in a nuclear reactor to create electricity?
Nuclear Fission
What are uses for nuclear reactions?
generate electricitysteam heating of nearby buildingsbombsbreeding reactor fueletc.
What is the full form of ITER?
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
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 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.
When and where did the first nuclear reactor generate electricity?
Electricity was generated for the first time by a nuclear reactor on December 20, 1951, at the EBR-I experimental station near Arco, Idaho, which initially produced about 100 kW.
What was the first nuclear facility to generate electricity in the US?
The SM-1 nuclear reactor in Fort Belvior in virginia.
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.
How does nuclear reactor works to produce electricity?
how electricity is produced in a nuclear reactor
How is enriched uranium used to generate electricity in a nuclear reactor?
For commercial nuclear energetic reactors the enrichment in 235U is generally up to 5 %.
How do bluebirds obtain their energy?
Most likely though the process of eating (or a microscopic thermonuclear reactor)
How do nuclear power plant owners generate revenue from their reactors?
By selling the electricity generated from the heat of the reactor. Same as fossil fuel power plants do, sell electricity generated from the heat of burning.
How would a fusion reactor differ from the nuclear reactor?
A fusion reactor is a type of nuclear reactor, one which fuses hydrogen atoms into helium atoms, as opposed to a fission reactor (by far the dominant source, and the only one used to commericaly generate power), which spilts uranium or plutonium atoms (mostly these two). Both use these reactions to generate heat, turning water to steam which then drives and turbine, which in turn drives a generator, creating electricity.
To generate electricity nuclear power plants produce?
Heat by fission in a nuclear reactor, that is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine connected to a generator which produces electricity. There are 435 nuclear power reactors in operation operating in 31 countries as of April, 2014.
