Nuclear Power
Have you ever wondered about how nuclear fusion and fission works? Nuclear power is very efficient, but creates radioactive waste. Control rods absorb neutrons, yet Chernobyl’s control rods didn’t. Nuclear power releases radiation, and has harmful gamma rays. Nuclear power works by using fission and uranium.
Nuclear power is a very efficient energy. A nuclear fission reactor creates steam that moves turbines to create self-sustaining electricity. Instead of burning coal, or fossil fuels they use uranium in which generates neutrons. When fissioned. There are many isotopes of uranium but the most common they use is U-238 and U-235. When they use U-235 it is unstable so when the the atom is fissioned it creates neutrons in which
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To get rid of the waste created after the intense radioactive process they go through a series of steps to make sure of safe underground disposal. First they must solidify the liquid into a borosilicate (Pyrex Glass) glass. Pyrex means heat resistant. They store it until it cools down and is stored for eventual underground disposal. Chernobyl control rods did not control the speed correctly, which caused an unstable amount of speed between the neutron flux. The elements in the control rods could only absorb so much. Also The people at the job sight were also not qualified for the job. They technically weren't fully educated. Due to this incident it has spread a chain around Russia. The radioactivity affects the soil. Which affects a huge amount of things such as water, livestock, and crops. Then harms us. This can be absorbed directly from gamma rays or indirectly such as eating a burger from a radioactive cow.
Mining uranium is very simple. They use a meter to measure the radioactivity in the area. Usually when they find the orebodies they take it to a plant. They then pulverize the rock into tiny fragments and process it in sulfuric acid so the U- Oxides can dissolve leaving only the