The commercial nuclear power plants that exist today generate electricity through nuclear fission reactions. In these reactions, heavier atoms (often uranium-235) are split into smaller atoms. A small amount of mass is converted to energy in this process and this energy is used ...
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Which one is the topic sentence of the following paragraph? ①A further reason why nuclear power should be a significant part of the world’s energy supply is its reliability. ②Once nuclear plants are built and functioning, the production of nuclear energy is constant. ③Wind and solar power...
The most popular extension of the simple Brayton gas turbine has been the combined cycle power plant with the Air-Brayton cycle serving as the topping cycle and the Steam-Rankine cycle serving as the bottoming cycle for new generation of nuclear power plants that are known as GEN-IV. The ...
①A further reason why nuclear power should be a significant part of the world’s energy supply is its reliability. ②Once nuclear plants are built and functioning, the production of nuclear energy is constant. ③Wind and solar power, however, are intermittent energy producers. ④Wind turbines ...
dirty, and renewables, which are clean but weather dependent. Contrary to their apocalyptic reputation, nuclear power plants are relatively safe. Coal poweris estimated to kill around 350 times as many peopleper terawatt-hour of energy produced, mostly from air pollution, compared to nuclear power...
the field of robotics has proved far less keen to investigate the other major category of living things—plants. She attributes the reluctance to a misconception about the usefulness of plant behaviour: that they are capable...
Maybe technology will solve the problem of nuclear waste and dangerous power plants. The nuclear reactors we’ve used so far are mostly outdated technology, because nuclear innovation stopped in the 1970s. There are models, like the thorium reactor, that could solve the problem altogether. Thorium...
ensure that power plants use cogeneration methods to minimize waste heat develop uses for nuclear waste products significantly reduce use of those energy production methods that are major contributors to global warming, or develop technical solutions that curb releases of those materials that produce glob...
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