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What type of reaction happens inside a nuclear power plant?

A nuclear chain reaction nuclear fission


What type of reaction happens in a power plant?

Nuclear fission


What nuclear reaction is used to the Bataan power plant?

The nuclear reaction used in the Bataan power plant is nuclear fission.


What happens in a nuclear power plant in Bataan?

Nothing happens in the nuclear plant in Bataan. This plant was built but never operated.


What is the difference in a nuclear power plant and a nuclear bomb?

A nuclear power plant uses a slow, controlled nuclear chain reaction to heat water and generate electricity. A nuclear bomb uses a very rapid uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction in order to generate a massive explosion.


Is the nuclear reaction in a nuclear power plant controlled or uncontrolled?

Controlled! ...if the reactor is working properly.


Can the chain reaction of nuclear fission be stopped or controlled?

The chain reaction can be controlled, and it can be stopped. It is controlled in a nuclear power plant, and it is stopped when the plant shuts down, as it does periodically for refueling.


What happens if a nuclear power plant does not work?

It produces no electricity


In a nuclear power plant what is used to change water to steam?

Heat from the nuclear reaction changes water to steam.


In what area of the nuclear power plant does the chain reaction occur?

fuel assemblies in the core.


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

the reactor vessel


Should you still use nuclear power?

Nuclear power is very good source of energy to turn to. The only problem is the storage of nuclear waste, that is left over after the nuclear reaction the power plant. The energy obtained from the nuclear power plant is very clean burning and more KJ/mole energy.