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Nuclear Power
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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 wa ....
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....n 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 nucl.... |
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