Nuclear Power Plant – Purpose & Working



Main Purpose Of Nuclear Power Plant-

Nuclear power plants, like any other power plant, are chiefly used to produce power.Some may directly also produce steam used for heating homes and various other services, but most produce power.Nuclear reactors are not some big glowing ball or anything. The inside looks more like this:

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A nuclear reactor is much like a chemical reactor except it is a vessel where atomic nuclei are broken apart and formed. When nuclei are broken, the reaction is called fission, and when nuclei are formed, the reaction is called fusion. Like chemical reactions, nuclear reactions can be exothermic (net energy generators) or endothermic (net energy consumers) and like chemical reactions, nuclear reactions can chain react.

The sole function for a nuclear reactor is to channel and shepherd the nuclear reaction going on inside it. It does this via control of temperature (like in a chemical reactor), control of radiation (via absorption or generation of the radiation), and control of leakage (via physical reflectors or sometimes electric/magnetic fields).

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