Nuclear energy help?

Question

When do people use nuclear energy and how do they use it?

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Answer 1

France gets 78% of its electricity from nuclear power.  I am going to guess the US has about 90-100 reactors in the US, providing electricity to people in their area.

Nuclear power is a type of nuclear technology involving the controlled use of nuclear reactions, usually nuclear fission, to release energy for work including propulsion, heat, and the generation of electricity. Nuclear energy is produced by a controlled nuclear chain reaction and creates heat—which is used to boil water, produce steam, and drive a steam turbine. The turbine can be used for mechanical work and also to generate electricity.

However, there are some problems.  The primary environmental impacts of nuclear power include Uranium mining, radioactive effluent emissions, direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions (water vapor, CO2, NO2) and waste heat. Which power source produces the least amount of greenhouse gases is controversial since also renewables produce indirect greenhouse emissions from sources such as mining and construction. Nuclear generation does not directly produce sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury or other pollutants associated with the combustion of fossil fuels.

Other issues include disposal of nuclear waste, with high level waste proposed to go in Deep geological repositories and nuclear decommissioning.

Hope this helps you out!

I would like to reply to Gaby's statement that he thinks I am wrong about emissions, but I want to point out I was not talking about the reactors themselves but the mining of uranium, and this is an indirect form of pollution from nuclear power because the nuclear power generators themselves are considered "clean" energy.

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Answer 2

I am using nuclear energy to answer this question.  Nuclear power electricity is the same as regular electricity and solar, wind powered also.

There are two main types of nuclear power: boiling water reactors and pressurized water reactors in the United States and these two types are the safest.  There are other types also.

Answer 3

When nuking my burritos for breakfast.

Answer 4

Submarines, aircraft carriers, electricity, and of course bombs. It is a highly govt controlled source of energy. The US uses more than any other country, because we control resources more than any other country.

Answer 5

They use Nuclear Power Plants to produce electrical power. The difference from using fossil fuels is in the "Boiler". Most  power plants boil water to produce steam which turns a steam turbine attached to an Electric Generator. The "boiler" can use fossil fuel, or Nuclear fuel source. In a Nuclear Plant, a closed Nuclear Reactor system transfers heat to a "Boiler".

France, England, Germany, Japan, Korea, US, Canada, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, and other countries use Nuclear Power. I believe France has about 80% of power from Nuclear.

I think Michelle is wrong about emissions. I don't belive there are any CO2 or NOx emissions from Nuclear. I don't remember any from them.