Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the controlled use of nuclear energy. Nuclear energy can be released by nuclear reactions in a machine called a nuclear reactor. This...

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (also called Fukushima I) is a disabled nuclear power plant in the town of Ōkuma in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan...

A nuclear power plant is a type of power station that generates electricity using heat from nuclear reactions. These reactions take place within a reactor...

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant currently under decommissioning near the city of Pripyat in the Kyiv region, which operated from...

processing of nuclear fuel from the ore, electricity generation by nuclear power, enriching and storing spent nuclear fuel and nuclear fuel reprocessing...

The Zwentendorf power plant is a nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf an der Donau in Austria. It has never been used. This is because the people of Austria...

Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy is a 2011 book by Benjamin K. Sovacool, published by World Scientific...

main components of these fuels. Most nuclear reactors are power reactors, used to make electricity. In nuclear power plants heat from the fission reactions...

Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future? is a 2007 book edited by Professor David Elliott. The book offers various...

most serious nuclear accident has been the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Other serious nuclear accidents include Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident...

starts making nuclear weapons, they become a nuclear power. Dual use technology means the possibility of military use of civilian nuclear technology for...

Dungeness nuclear power station refers to two nuclear power stations located at Dungeness in Kent, England. Dungeness A is an old Magnox power station....

The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Persian: نیروگاه اتمی بوشهر is a nuclear power plant in Iran. It is about 17 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of the city of...

driven by a steam turbine. The steam may come from: Burning fossil fuels Nuclear power, using radioactive sources Using the earth's heat, called geothermal...

Torness nuclear power station was the last of the United Kingdom's second generation nuclear power stations to be commissioned. It has two Advanced gas-cooled...

The Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant (福島第二原子力発電所, Fukushima Dai-Ni Genshiryoku Hatsudensho) is a nuclear power plant in the towns of Naraha and Tomioka...

(succeeded as a nuclear power by Russia), the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. Israel is believed to have nuclear weapons, but...

Heysham Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power station located in Heysham, Lancashire, England. The site is divided into two separately-managed stations...

people who are anti-nuclear, are against the use of nuclear power for electricity generation, since they think nuclear power is dangerous. They consider...

worst disasters at nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities all over the world is presented below: One of the worst nuclear accidents to date...