For the US, go to NRC website (www.nrc.gov), select Nuclear Reactors-New Reactors, you will see a page with a box containing links to COL applications and locations of new reactors. You can go through these and note both the energy company who will be the owners, and the design organisation.
For the rest of the world, website ( www.world-nuclear.org) has information on a country by country base.
Countries with nuclear power plants include the US, Canada, France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, China, Japan, South Africa. I may have left a few off, that's from memory.
Refer to 'www.world-nuclear.org' for more complete list.
The electricity supply business
The word nuclear comes from nucleus. Nuclear power comes from the release of binding energy (Strong Atomic Force) in the nucleus of atoms.
They supply the electricity companies who supply your house or business
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There is no nuclear power involved in a microwave unless the electricity used to power it is from a nuclear power plant.
Nuclear power plants produce electricity by using nuclear energy
Uranium
The word nuclear comes from nucleus. Nuclear power comes from the release of binding energy (Strong Atomic Force) in the nucleus of atoms.
Uranium
They supply the electricity companies who supply your house or business
Energy. How we use it makes it a good thing or a bad thing.
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Plutonium applications: - fuel for nuclear reactors - explosive for nuclear weapons - neutron source - isotopic power source - isotopic heat source - in the past, power source for pacemakers
Heat from the nuclear reaction changes water to steam.
The fission energy of a nuclear reactor is heat. It makes steam which runs a turbine electric generator. The electricity is put on the power grid and is sent to the load.
An unstable nucleus which decays emitting a neutron.
nuclear power
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