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2. Anuclear power plant(NPP) is athermal power stationin which
the heat source is one or morenuclear reactors.
3. As in a conventional thermal power station the heat is used to
generate steam which drives asteam turbineconnected to
ageneratorwhich produceselectricity.
Nuclear power plants arebase loadstations, which are best suited to
constant power output.
4. Nuclear Power Plant Disadvantages.
Nuclear Power generates radiation, which can be harmful or even
fatal to infected people.
5. Careless disposal of waste in the past has led to pollution of
land, rivers and the ocean.
6. Nuclear waste dumps can spontaneously combust without
warnings.
7. Nuclear Power Plants Advantages
Advantage 1: Zero Emissions
Nuclear energy does not involve burning fossil fuels. In fact,
under normal operating circumstances it does not release any air
pollutants at all. In this respect, it is as clean as solar, wind,
geothermal and hydropower, emits no carbon emissions, and could be
considered part of a larger solution to global warming.
8. Advantage 2: Energy Independence
Nuclear fuels are derived from uranium and plutonium. Uranium is
available is plentiful in the United States, and plutonium is
created as a byproduct of the nuclear fission process (see below).
Replacing oil and natural gas burning power plants with nuclear
power plants would therefore be helping with achieving energy
independence. Indeed, France gets more than three-quarters of its
electricity from nuclear power exactly because of a nuclear-based
national energy independence policy.
9. Advantage: Useful Byproducts
It is often claimed that nuclear power is renewable, and although
this is not true, some types of nuclear power plant make their own
fuel as a byproduct. Breeder type reactors are built to maximize
the creation of certain radioactive byproducts, with the best-known
example being the design that maximizes plutonium output. Plutonium
can be processed back into fuel for nuclear reactors. Other
breeders make radioactive isotopes that are useful to
medicine.
10. Processes inside the Nuclear Power Plants.
11. 12. 13. Thats All!
The End.