the reactor accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant.
a nuclear reactor converts binding energy into heat. a nuclear power plant uses a nuclear reactor to generate electricity.
Homogeneous reactor- the reactor where one phase exist for both the reactants. Hetrogenous reactor - the reactors where more than one phase exist among the reactants gas-liquid-solid.
The main one is disbursal of its radioactive contents into the environment. The fallout from this has the potential to be much worse than the fallout from nuclear weapons, as the amount of material inside the reactor that can be disbursed is far larger than the fallout that can be generated by any nuclear weapon ever deployed.
fallout from burning graphite mixed with molten reactor fuel.
The exact contents of radioactive waste from a nuclear power plant and radioactive fallout from a nuclear weapon can vary widely but are likely to be similar in their primary isotopes.The major difference between the radioactive waste from a nuclear power plant and radioactive fallout from a nuclear weapon is that the waste is normally contained and will not enter the environment (unless an accident happens) while the fallout is dispersed into the environment and is carried by the wind (sometimes all the way around the world multiple times).
The primary difference between a pressurized water reactor (PWR) and a boiling water reactor (BWR) is that in the BWR, water is actually boiled, and the steam is used to drive a steam turbine, while in the PWR, the primary coolant is not allowed to boil, but is circulated in a closed loop to boil water in a steam generator. The BWR circulates primary coolant through the steam turbine in a closed loop. The PWR contains the primary coolant in a loop that includes the steam generator, and not the steam turbine.
Nuclear reactions in a nuclear reactor are controlled reactions. The reactions in the atomic bomb are not controlled reactions
Chemical reactor engineering is the overall discipline that uses CFD, computational fluid dynamics, as part of the necessary problem-solving data.
bioreactors involves organisms or plant cells etc. for conversion and cr nt
Worst reactor accident to that date. The Japanese 2011 accident may turn out to be worse however.
See the Wikipedia article linked below