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The Pros And Cons Of Nuclear Power Plants

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Commonly, Nuclear Power plant generates electricity with minimum emissions that are detrimental to the environment. It works on the concept of Nuclear fission -Splitting of a single Uranium-235 atom by the incident of a neutron leads to the release of ~200 MeV of energy, a significant 200 million times more than an energy released from a chemical reaction. Pressurized water reactor (PWR) is the widely installed class in the fleet of nuclear power plants across the world. PWR uses 4~5 % of enriched U-235 as fuel and water as moderator and coolant. The energy released from the fission boils the water and generates high enthalpy steam. Then, the steam loses its latent heat of vaporization by expanding over the turbine blades. The nuclear power
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