nuclear reactor?

Answer 1

What is a man made device that creates heat via induced nuclear reactions which is used to convert water into steam which then turns a generator that creates electricity?


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactors

Answer 2

A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a steady rate (as opposed to a nuclear bomb, in which the chain reaction occurs in a fraction of a second and is completely uncontrolled).

Nuclear reactors are used for many purposes. The most significant current use is for the generation of electrical power . Research reactors are used for radioisotope production and for beamline experiments with free neutrons. Historically, the first use of nuclear reactors was the production of weapons grade plutonium for nuclear weapons. Another military use is submarine / ship propulsion (Though this involves a much smaller nuclear reactor than the one used in a nuclear power plant).

Currently all commercial nuclear reactors are based on nuclear fission, and are considered by some to be a safe and pollution-free method of generating electricity. Conversely, some consider nuclear reactors problematic for their potential safety and health risks. Fusion power is an experimental technology based on nuclear fusion instead of fission. There are other devices in which nuclear reactions occur in a controlled fashion, including radioisotope thermoelectric generators and atomic batteries, which generate heat and power by exploiting passive radioactive decay, as well as Farnsworth-Hirsch fusors, in which controlled nuclear fusion is used to produce neutron radiation.

Answer 3

Nuclear reactors work on the principle of Nuclear Fission
Uranium nuclei is split to release huge amounts of energy on the basis of
e=mc^2

Answer 4

NUCLEAR REACTOR:-
* Any of several devices in which a chain reaction is initiated and controlled, with the resulting heat typically used for power generation and the neutrons and fission products used for military, experimental, and medical purposes.
* Also called atomic reactor.

Answer 5

Its a man made device that creates heat via induced nuclear reactions which is used to convert water into steam which then turns a generator that creates electricity.

Answer 6

when a neutron of uranium 238 is released, it goes and hits the other uranium238 and this uranium releases three other proton and those go and hit another three and while this split up takes place, some amount of heat energy is released which heats the water around the chamber and the water becomes steam.this steam pushes the turbine and helps in generating electrical energy.

Answer 7

an assembly of uranium, with moderator, in which a nuclear chain reaction can develop

Answer 8

Cadmium rods.