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Know about Nuclear

power

Monomousumi Correspondent

Nuclear power plants are essentially thermal power plants where the source of
the heat energy is the nuclear reaction. In a typical thermal power plant, we have
coal with high calorific value as the fuel. We burn this coal to generate heat. This
heat in turn converts water into pressurized steam and that does the mechanical
work of turning the turbine.

We have heat being converted into Usually, uranium rods are used in the
mechanical energy like that. Then we nuclear fission. A kilogram of
have the turbine’s mechanical energy uranium can generate three million
converted into electricity via the times more energy than what we get

generator. The nuclear power plants by burning a kilogram of coal. When
employ exactly the same working the nuclei collide with the nearby
principle. However, instead of atoms in the nuclear reactor, we have
burning coal, we have nuclear rods thermal energy. This is used to raise
inside a nuclear reactor. The nuclear the steam. Then the process precedes
reaction is where a nuclear chain same as it would have done in case of
reaction takes place in a controlled any typical thermal power plant.
manner.

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