Nuclear power plant

• A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces electricity. As of 2018, the international atomic energy agency reported there were 450 nuclear power reactors in operation in 30 countries around the world.
• Nuclear plants are usually considered to be base load stations since fuel is a small part of the cost of production and because they cannot be easily or quickly dispached. Their operations, maintenance, and fuel costs are at the low end of the spectrum, making them suitable as base-load power suppliers. However, the cost of proper long term radioactive waste storage is uncertain.
• Americans get most of their yearly radiation dose from nuclear power plants.
• A nuclear reactor can explode like a nuclear bomb.
• Truth: It is impossible for a reactor to explode like a nuclear weapon; these weapons contain very special materials in very particular configurations, neither of which are present in a nuclear reactor.
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• Nuclear energy is bad for the environment.
• Truth: Nuclear reactors emit no greenhouse gases during operation. Over their full lifetimes, they result in comparable emissions to renewable forms of energy such as wind and solar [3]. Nuclear energy requires less land use than most other forms of energy.
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• Nuclear waste cannot be safely transported.
• Truth: Used fuel is being safely shipped by truck, rail, and cargo ship today. To date, thousands of shipments have been transported with no leaks or cracks of the specially-designed casks
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• Nuclear energy is not safe.
• Truth: Nuclear energy is as safe or safer than any other form of energy available. No member of the public has ever been injured or killed in...

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