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Published in Germany - Financial analysis - 2 - 08 Aug 19 08:56

Nuclear power is basically the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, this heat is used to heat up water that turns into steam and turns a steam turbine which produces electicity inside a nuclear power plant.

Most reactors currently use Uranium 235 which is an enriched metal that makes around 0.72% of the natural Uranium it is able to sustain nuclear fission chain reaction and can be found in significant quantities in earth.

Some reactors use Plutonium as well, or even the decayed materials from Uranium in radioisotopes thermoelectric generators.

There are over 450 active nuclear power plants nowdays according to the IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency -
Countries with nuclear power plant facilities are able to construct nuclear arsenal due to the enrichment process being the exact same for creating fuel, just in way higher amounts. Weapons grade uranium 235 is around 80-90% enriched-pure while fuel percentage is different depending on reactor type but its usually around 15-30%.


Sources :

1) Wikipedia: Nuclear Power Plants , Uranium 235

2) Personal studies on nuclear science.

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Comments (2)

08 Aug 19 09:12
El Greco

@admin introduce nuclear power in-game

08 Aug 19 09:15
Galadrael

https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/plutonium-trojan-horse-in-the-body/