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Which of the following are differences between nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs?
Purpose: Nuclear reactors are designed to produce electricity through controlled nuclear fission, while nuclear bombs are designed to release a large amount of energy in an uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction. Control: Nuclear reactors have various safety features and control mechanisms to regulate the nuclear fission process, while nuclear bombs have no such controls and are designed for maximum energy release. Fuel Enrichment: Nuclear reactors typically use low-enriched uranium or plutonium as fuel, while nuclear bombs require highly enriched uranium or plutonium to achieve a rapid, explosive chain reaction.
What are the similarities between nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs?
Both have critical mass, and create energy from a fission chain reaction. In nuclear bombs, the chain reaction is uncontained and spreads to all the fissionable material nearly instantaneously.
Why are most nuclear reactors near water?
Nuclear plants use water as both working fluid and coolant. The reactor itself is cooled by cold water (rarely salt or gas), and functions as a heater, creating steam, which works turbines, which, in turn, generate electricity.
Why are most of the nuclear plants located near the coast?
Most nuclear plants are located near the coast because they require large amounts of water for cooling purposes. Coastal areas provide easy access to large bodies of water for cooling the reactors. Additionally, coastal locations offer transportation infrastructure for receiving fuel and sending out electricity.
Where you get your electricity from and how your electricity is produced?
your electricity in your home comes from wires under ground or on power lines. it comes from the power company that gets it from wind, solar, nuclear, hydroelectic dams, or from burning coal.
How are nuclear reactors different from breeder reactors?
Most nuclear reactors, in general, are designed and built to produce usable energy. The energy helps supply public demand for electricity, or provide propulsion for a combat vessel at sea, especially submarines. Some nuclear reactors are built for research only, to learn more about nuclear power and about better ways to utilize it. Nuclear reactors do not emit atmospheric contaminants like other energy-making processes do. They are not like combustion engines, and require no oxygen to burn for their function. Breeder reactors are a different story indeed. They do produce usable energy, but in too many cases their design purpose is to "breed" more fissionable material during the reaction process.
Which of the following are differences between nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs?
Purpose: Nuclear reactors are designed to produce electricity through controlled nuclear fission, while nuclear bombs are designed to release a large amount of energy in an uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction. Control: Nuclear reactors have various safety features and control mechanisms to regulate the nuclear fission process, while nuclear bombs have no such controls and are designed for maximum energy release. Fuel Enrichment: Nuclear reactors typically use low-enriched uranium or plutonium as fuel, while nuclear bombs require highly enriched uranium or plutonium to achieve a rapid, explosive chain reaction.
What are the similarities between nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs?
Both have critical mass, and create energy from a fission chain reaction. In nuclear bombs, the chain reaction is uncontained and spreads to all the fissionable material nearly instantaneously.
Why are most nuclear reactors near water?
Nuclear plants use water as both working fluid and coolant. The reactor itself is cooled by cold water (rarely salt or gas), and functions as a heater, creating steam, which works turbines, which, in turn, generate electricity.
Which methods of producing electricity require chemical reactions?
Nuclear. The rest are mechanical.
How many nuclear power plants would it take to power the whole US 100 percent?
An approximate answer is that at present there are 104 operating reactors, and they produce 19% of the total electricity generation. On that basis, 100% would require 547 reactors. Newer ones would be on the whole of larger capacity so the real answer would be around 500.
How many nuclear power plants would the US need if They went 100 percent nuclear?
At the present time there are 104 operating reactors which provide 20 percent of total electricity. So 100 percent would require five times as many, 520 reactors. But newer ones have greater output than the average of those now operating, so it would probably be about 400 rather than over 500.
Why are most of the nuclear plants located near the coast?
Most nuclear plants are located near the coast because they require large amounts of water for cooling purposes. Coastal areas provide easy access to large bodies of water for cooling the reactors. Additionally, coastal locations offer transportation infrastructure for receiving fuel and sending out electricity.
Why do nuclear reactors require a fissionable isotope?
The fissionable isotope is required for the nuclear reactor operation. The fissionable isotope when fissions it give energy due to the mass difference according to Einstein formula E = mc2
What will happen if nuclear fission chain reaction goes on indefinitely?
It can and does in a reactor. Nothing special. However reactors usually require periodic refueling and maintenance, which may require short shutdowns or at least reduced operating power for these activities.
Where you get your electricity from and how your electricity is produced?
your electricity in your home comes from wires under ground or on power lines. it comes from the power company that gets it from wind, solar, nuclear, hydroelectic dams, or from burning coal.
The differences between nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs include what?
Nuclear reactors produce exactly one additional fission for each fission reaction while nuclear bombs don't Nuclear bombs are runaway fission reactions and reactors aren't (APEX)
