NUCLEAR ENERGY
What Is It
How It Works
Fission
Fusion
How It Produces Electricity
In a nuclear power plant, fuel is not burned to produce energy.Fission and fusion are the “fuel” in this case to produce energy. This takes place in a reactor thats is located inside the power plant. There is a CORE in the centre of the reactor in which uranium fuel is contained. Ceramic pellets are formed from the uranium fuel.Fun fact: although these pellets are the size of our fingertips, they are powerful enough to produce the equivalent amount of energy as 150 gallons of oil ! Then after that, fission occurs and produces heat in a reactor. And then, the heat that is produced by fission is used to boil water into steam. This steam is then used as a fuel to turn huge turbine blades which drives generators that produce electricity.The good thing about this process is that not a lot of water is wasted because after the steam turns the blades , it is changed back into water and cooled so it can be used over and over.