Nuclear Power Plant is equal to how many nuclear bomb?

Answer 1

Less than one. When the reactor at Chernobyl blew up, it didn't destroy the building, it just blew a hole in the roof. And it had tons of nuclear material in it, compared to a small fraction of one ton in a bomb. The difference is the purity of the material. A bomb uses pure material and is designed to release all the energy it can in a fraction of a second while a reactor uses less pure nuclear material and is designed to release the energy slowly over long periods of time. So when they operated the reactor improperly at Chernobyl, the best explosion it could manage was way smaller than the smallest nuclear bomb.

Answer 2

A megaton is defined as 4.184 * 10 ^^ 9 joules (wikipedia)

The three mile island nuclear facility produces about 8.16 * 10 ^^ 8 watts of power when online

A watt is defined as 1 jole per second. (wikipedia)

So a small nuclear eplosion is equal to 3 mile island being online for 4,184 * 10 ^^9 / 8.16 * 10 ^^ 8 = roughly 5 seconds

Answer 3

a lot. a nuke has kilograms of stuff, nuclear plant has tonnes.

yet nuclear plant will never result in a proper nuclear explosion - it will melt down before too much of nuclear material is involved in a chain reaction. That's kinda what happened at Chernobyl.

Answer 4

Hopfully zero.

Modern nuclear plants can not explode, they can only overheat and melt themselves. However there is enough uranium in a power plant to make a good sized bomb.