What Is Nuclear?

Question

i just need a simple answer: what is nuclear power?

Has nuclear technology ultimately been good for the world?
pros, cons, what is it

impacts in terms of politic religious, economic...

Answer 1

I m studying nuclear engineerin in Turkey, I guess, I can answer your question.
Nuclear Power can be described as "Producing energy from disentegration of nuclear elemens, which are radioactive."
These elemens are Co (Cobalt), U235 (Uranium with atomic mass is 235), Pulutonium etc...
If nuclear power is in safe hands, it can be used to produce electricity, otherwise it can be used to produce "Nuclear Bomb". About nuclear energy and nuclear bomb, you can visit the websites below.

Additionally, in today's world, having Nuclear Tecnology is a big power for international area. When we look to the political situation of the world, all powerful countries have Nuclear Technology, and lots of them using this tecnology for good purposes... By the way, if any country wants to be more powerful, it must develop or buy this technology...

I hope I could help to you, Good Luck!

Answer 2

Its probably been more pro than con so far (assuming you have no relation to Hiroshima and Nagasaki)...

That of course remains to be seen; as we could cause a nuclear holocaust wiping out most of mankind tomorrow, you never know. Without that occurring though, and the two bombs unleashed on Japan, then nuclear power is necessary as without nuclear energy we would not have enough energy for our needs. Nuclear energy produces most of our energy. That tends to outweigh the nuclear waste problem it presents.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power for a basic easy to understand description of what nuclear power is...

Answer 3

Power plants need something to boil water to make steam to spin turbines, to spin generators. That 'something' can be coal, or oil, or gas, but it can also come from radioactive materials that produce their own heat from the radioactive decay process.

It is called nuclear, because the heat source comes from the nucleus of atoms that are radioactive (like Uranium atoms). When they decay they give off energy. This energy eventually goes into heating water, for steam, for spinning turbines, for spinning generators, for making electric power.

Pros:
it does not deplete the fossil fueals (coal, gas, oil).
It does not make carbon-dioxide gas

cons:
Radioactive waste is very dangerous.

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Answer 4

pros: you can get free energy from nuclear power...typically the output is 1,000,000 times the energy that is used to start and maintain the reaction...in this way it could be a blessing...with this technology you could have the most powerfull car on earth and only need to refuel it once in your lifetime all you would need to worry about is overheating (as long as the reactor block was solid graphite)...cons are obvious

Answer 5

it is a power source derived from the energy given off when atoms split. Think like a room full of mouse traps, one goes off causing all of them to go off eventually. That is a lot like nuclear energy. if u want a more in depth look go to howstuffworks.com they explain it a little more in depth but very simply.

Answer 6

Nuclear means relating to some sort of nucleus or center
There is different type of nuclears...

Answer 7

Nuclear power comes from the center of a atom (nucleas) when you split it open

Answer 8

it uses the heat from a controlled radioactive isotope at less than critical mass to drive a steam turbine to produce electricity