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What type of reaction happens in a nuclear power plant?

A nuclear fission reaction occurs in a nuclear power plant. This is the process where the nucleus of an atom is split, releasing large amounts of energy in the form of heat, which is used to generate electricity.


What is it called when nuclear fission is repeated?

It is called nuclear chain fission reaction.


What nuclear reaction is used to the Bataan power plant?

The Bataan nuclear power plant uses nuclear fission as the nuclear reaction to generate electricity. In nuclear fission, the nucleus of an atom is split into two smaller nuclei, releasing a large amount of energy, which is harnessed to produce electricity.


What type of reaction happens in a power plant?

Nuclear fission


What part of a nuclear power plant that undergoes a fission reaction called?

The part of a nuclear power plant that undergoes a fission reaction is called the reactor core. This is where the nuclear fuel, such as uranium or plutonium, is housed and where the chain reaction occurs to produce heat energy.


What type of reaction happens inside a nuclear power plant?

A nuclear chain reaction nuclear fission


What reaction generate thermal energy in a nuclear power plant as water is changed into steam?

fission


What helps control the fission reaction in a nuclear plant?

The fission reaction is controlled through use of high neutron capture material as Boron, Gadolinium, Cadmium, ... etc.


What is the part of a nuclear power plant that undergoes a fission reaction?

The uranium 235 atoms in the nuclear fuel are what actually fission, or split into two other atoms. The uranium is in ceramic fuel pellets that are inserted into fuel rods, that make up fuel elements, that are in the reactor core that is located in the reactor vessel of the nuclear power plant. After the fuel has been in the reactor it begins to produce plutonium 239 atoms within the fuel which will also undergo a fission reaction.


Can fission happen on earth?

Yes, all natural radiation (in the rocks) is a result of fission (but this fission is not part of a chain reaction like in a fission bomb). However, it is theoretically possible for natural processes to concentrate radioactive elements (uranium) to the extent where a natural nuclear fission reactor (a chain reaction like in a nuclear power plant) will form. Oklo in in Gabon is the only known location for this to have happened and consists of 16 sites at which self-sustaining nuclear fission reactions took place approximately 1.7 billion years ago.


What type of reaction happens inside a nuclear plant?

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What would happen to a nuclear plant if the fission reaction goes critical or out of control?

There are emergency safety system that could be used to bring the nuclear plant again under control.