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Nuclear Power

Most of the world’s electricity is generated by either thermal or
hydroelectric power plants. Thermal power plants use fuel to boil water
which makes steam. The steam turns turbines that generate electricity.
Hydroelectric power plants use the great force of rushing water from a
dam or a waterfall to turn the turbines.
The majority of thermal power plants burn fossil fuels because thermal
power plants are cheaper to maintain and have to meet less of the
governments requirements compared to plants. Fossil fuels
are coal and oil. The downfall of using fossil fuels is that they are
limited. Fossil fuels are developed from the remains of plants and
animals that died millions of ...

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Book vol. 14, 586)
Nuclear power plants generate only about eleven percent of the world’s
electricity. There are around 316 nuclear power plants in the world
that create 213,000 megawatts of electricity. (INFOPEDIA)
Radioactive, or nuclear, waste is the by-product of nuclear fission.
Fission occurs when atoms’ nucleus’ split and cause a nuclear reaction.
(General Information) When a free neutron splits a nucleus, energy is
released along with free neutrons, fission fragments that give off beta
rays, and gamma rays. A free neutron from the nucleus that just split
splits another nucleus. This process continues on and is called a chain
reaction. (World Book vol. 14, 588)
The fission process is used to create heat, which boils water inside the
nuclear reactor. The steam that boiling the water makes is used to turn
turbines, which in turn, generate electricity. Fission happens inside a
carefully monitored nuclear reactor, when being used in a ...

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