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Nuclear Energy

S U B T ITLE

Nuclear power
Nuclear power, or nuclear energy, is the use of
exothermic nuclear processes, to generate useful
heat and electricity.
Provided about 5.7% of the world's energy and 13%
of the world's electricity in 2012.
In 2013, the International Atomic Energy Agency
report that there are 437 operational nuclear power
reactors, in 31 countries.

How Nuclear Power Reactors Work?


A nuclear reactor is a device to initiate and control a
sustained nuclear chain reaction. Nuclear reactors
are used at nuclear power plants for electricity
generation and in propulsion of ships. Heat from
nuclear fission is passed to a working fluid (water or
gas), which runs through turbines. These either
drive a ship's propellers or turn electrical generators.
Nuclear generated steam in principle can be used
for industrial process heat or for district heating.

Fission
Nuclear fission is either a nuclear reaction or a
radioactive decay process in which the nucleus of a
particle splits into smaller parts (lighter nuclei).

Nuclear Fission

Heat generation
The reactor core generates heat in a number of ways:
The kinetic energy of fission products is converted to
thermal energy when these nuclei collide with nearby
atoms.
The reactor absorbs some of the gamma rays produced
during fission and converts their energy into heat.
Heat is produced by the radioactive decay of fission
products and materials that have been activated by
neutron absorption. This decay heat-source will remain
for some time even after the reactor is shut down.

Cooling
A nuclear reactor coolant usually water but
sometimes a gas or a liquid metal (like liquid
sodium) or molten salt is circulated past the
reactor core to absorb the heat that it generates.
The heat is carried away from the reactor and is
then used to generate steam

Reactivity control
The power output of the reactor is adjusted by
controlling how many neutrons are able to create
more fissions.

Electrical power generation


The energy released in the fission process generates
heat, some of which can be converted into usable
energy. A common method of harnessing this
thermal energy is to use it to boil water to produce
pressurized steam which will then drive a steam
turbine that turns an alternator and generates
electricity.

How Nuclear Power Reactor Works

Environmental impact of
Nuclear power

Nuclear accidents
The routine health risks and greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear
fission power are small relative to those associated with coal, oil and
gas. However, there is a "catastrophic risk" potential if containment
fails, which in nuclear reactors can be brought about by over-heated
fuels melting and releasing large quantities of fission products into
the environment. The public is sensitive to these risks and there has
been considerable public opposition to nuclear power.

Nuclear and radiation accidents


Examples include lethal effects to individuals, large radioactivity
release to the environment, or reactor core melt."The prime example
of a "major nuclear accident" is one in which a reactor core is
damaged and significant amounts of radioactivity are released, such
as in the Chernobyl Disaster in 1986.
acute radiation syndrome, thyroid cancer, radiation-induced cancer
and leukemia.

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