Introduction
A nuclear power plant produces electricity using heat from nuclear reactions that take place in a reactor. Its a standard thermal power station, the source of heat is a nuclear reactor. As in all conventional thermal power stations, the steam turbines are connected to the generator and its generated by the heat that makes them turn and produces electricity.
Building this station would be beneficial to the country at large as it means there would be an extra source of electricity after The Morupule Power Station located in Palapye. However a lot needs to be considered.
How The Nuclea Power Station Works
Fig 1; Chernobyl plant Source: OECD NEA
1. Fuel from uranium is filled into the reactor, and in its core, the atoms
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However, the same cannot be said about uranium, which is a very scarce resource. Only a few countries have uranium ores, which means that a tiresome process of getting the approval of several international authorities is required before anyone can build a nuclear power plant. (Eubanks, 2016)
Suggestions to reduce the impacts of nuclear accidents
Reactors are designed with layers of redundant safety systems. There's the main cooling system, a backup to it, a backup to the backup, a backup to the backup to the backup, and so on. A major accident can only occur if all these systems fail simultaneously. By adding extra layers of redundancy, the probability of such a catastrophic failure can -- in theory at least -- be made too small to worry about. (Asaff, 2017)
It is also important to stay away from potential radiation sources, thus reducing health problems associated with exposure to radiation
Countries with nuclear power plants should put in extra effort in seeing that staff in nuclear power plants receive adequate and proper training as this would help in how to operate reactors and all other equipment in a power plant as well as what actions to take in times of a