How It Works

Advantages

• costs about the same amount of coal so it's not very expensive to make
• does not produce smoke or carbon dioxide
• produces huge amounts of energy from small amounts of fuel
• produces small amounts of waste
• Nuclear power is reliable
• 500 MW capacity for 24 hours, it will generate 12,192 megawatt hours (1,000,000 watts is equal to one megawatt)

Disadvantages

• Very dangerous
• Must be sealed up and buried for thousands of years to allow the radioactivity to die away
• Must be kept safe during earthquakes,flooding, and terrorists
• a lot of money is spent on safety
• people are getting interestingly concerned about power plants

Summary

• Nuclear power stations use uranium as fuel
• Sometimes called "atomic power"
• Heat from the reactor turns water into steam, which drives turbines,
• which drive generators
• Doesn't cause pollution unless something goes wrong

Bonus

• 500 MW capacity for 24 hours, it will generate 12,192 megawatt hours (1,000,000 watts is equal to one megawatt)
• The biggest nuclear power plant is in Japan Kashiwazaki Kariwa with a net capacity of 7,965MW and seven boiling water reactors
• On June 26, 1954, at Obninsk, Russia, the first power plant was created. it had a electrical output of 5 MW.
• the closest nuclear power plant is at Indian Point Energy Center in Westchester

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