Renewable Electricity
Nuclear Power
Nuclear power is considered a powerful and cheap replacement for fusel fuel. The nuclear power is a modern, advanced and reliable source, which can generate vast amount of electricity that can be used to light-up big cities and factories. Since the first simple nuclear reactor was built in 1942, this field has faced major development in order to benefit from its amazing power. These days, nuclear plants provide about 15.7% of world’s electricity. France has the lead of using this energy which contributes with 72.9 of its electricity.
The power generated in Nuclear Plants using some radioactive elements such as, Uranium and Radium. They use special methods to join, or split atoms which cause energy to be released. This happens in part of the reactor called Reactor Core, which uses the water to maintain normal temperature. The power generated is extremely huge that is directly send to electricity station, or used to turn big turbines to make electricity.
First of all, Uranium is extracted from mines, and taken to special workshops where it is cleaned and checked for the capability of usage. Then, small parts and stored in special cylinders and taken to the power plant. In the plant, they put the Uranium in special rooms called “Reactor Core” where they use small electrical currant to make the Uranium particles excited, so it can start the reaction with each other. This reaction, whether it was fusion, or splitting of the atom, produce energy that is stored, or send to other plants, or used to turn turbines. Most nuclear plants called “Thermal Reactors” use uranium-235 to save money, however, big reactors called “Fast Breeders” use uranium-238 which is about 99% pure Ur ...