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A nuclear power plant ( NPP) [1] is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces electricity. As of September 2023, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported there were 410 ...
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced by nuclear fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear power plants. Nuclear decay processes are used in ...
Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear and gas-fired power plant located on a 3,300-acre (1,300 ha) site two miles east of Homestead, Florida, United States, next to Biscayne National Park located about 25 miles (40 km) south of Miami, Florida near the southernmost edge of Miami-Dade County. The facility is owned by Florida Power ...
The Gravelines Nuclear Power Station. The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant. The Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant. The Ōi Nuclear Power Plant. The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. The Tricastin Nuclear Power Center. The Chinon Nuclear Power Plant. The Bugey Nuclear Power Plant. The Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant.
Nuclear reactor core. Example of the core of a nuclear power plant, a VVER design. A nuclear reactor core is the portion of a nuclear reactor containing the nuclear fuel components where the nuclear reactions take place and the heat is generated. [1] Typically, the fuel will be low- enriched uranium contained in thousands of individual fuel pins.
Heysham nuclear power station is operated by EDF Energy in Heysham, Lancashire, England. The site is divided into two separately-managed nuclear power stations, Heysham 1 and Heysham 2, both with two reactors of the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) type. In 2010, the British government announced that Heysham was one of the eight sites it ...
Nuclear fuel. Nuclear fuel process. A graph comparing nucleon number against binding energy. Close-up of a replica of the core of the research reactor at the Institut Laue-Langevin. Nuclear fuel is material used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines. Heat is created when nuclear fuel undergoes nuclear fission.
Trojan Nuclear Power Plant. / 46.03833°N 122.88500°W / 46.03833; -122.88500. Trojan Nuclear Power Plant was a pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant (Westinghouse design) in the northwest United States, located southeast of Rainier, Oregon, [2] and so far, the only commercial nuclear power plant to be built in Oregon.