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    NUCLEAR

    POWER
    What is nuclear
    power?

    • the use of controlled


    nuclear reactions to obtain
    energy
    • includes:

     nuclear fission,

     nuclear decay

     n u c l e a r fu s i o n .
    What is a Nuclear Plant?

    • a t h er ma l p o wer s t a t io n .

    • h e a t s o u r ce i s a n u cl e a r r e a ct o r
     heat is used to generate steam to drives a steam turbine

    • 4 3 9 n u cl e a r p o we r re a c t o rs

    • 3 2 co u n t r ie s a ro un d t he wo rl d 。

    Source : the International Atomic Energy Agency


    How do the powered by atomic splitting(fission)

    neutron is fired at an atom


    nuclear plant
    splits into two smaller atoms and some extra neutrons.
    work?
    Some of them released neutrons to hit other atoms

    causing them to fission and release more neutrons

    large amount of heat energy


    1. cooling water takes the heat energy out

    How do the
    2. generates steam in steam generator

    nuclear plant
    3. high temperature and pressure steam drives steam
    turbine
    work?
    4. drives the generator to rotate

    5. steam will be collected


    Benefit of Nuclear Power

    Reliable: Clean air: Efficient:


    • Nuclear reactors usually produce • No greenhouse emissions in • Powerful energy production
    power 24/7 of using oil. operation

    Reduce costs: Less:


    • The costs of operation are very • The electricity generated by one
    low. kilogram of uranium is about
    2,700,000 kilograms of coal
    1 It generates toxic nuclear
    Disadvantage waste
    of using Uranium is highly radioactive.
    turned into nuclear waste
    Nuclear Power highly radioactive for hundreds or
    thousands of years
    cannot be discarded or disposed of
    easily.
    Disadvantage 2. It raises the chances
    of nuclear proliferation.
    of using
    Nuclear Power • Nuclear proliferation
    • development of nuclear weapons
    • accumulation of nuclear material
    threaten to the peace
    3. nuclear fiction
    Disadvantage
    • a bad way to make power big as
    of using the particles keep dividing
    • atomic bomb killed up to
    Nuclear Power 226,000 people
    • it need a lot of water to cool
    down

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