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A nuclear power plant (NPP), [1] also known as a nuclear power station (NPS), nuclear generating station (NGS) or atomic power station (APS) 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 ...
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced by nuclear fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear power plants. Nuclear decay processes are used in ...
The Kori Nuclear Power Plant. The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, the world's largest fully operational nuclear power facility. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The Gravelines Nuclear Power Station. The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant. The Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant. The Ōi Nuclear Power Plant.
Public support for nuclear power is the highest its been in more than a decade. Here, the domed reactors of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant rise along the California coast.
The nuclear power industry is increasingly looking to smaller reactors, which run on HALEU. These reactors can last longer than conventional ones and fit into smaller spaces — making them more ...
The White House on Wednesday plans to announce new measures to support the development of new U.S. nuclear power plants, a large potential source of carbon-free electricity the government says is ...
US nuclear power plants, highlighting recently and soon-to-be retired plants, as of 2013 (US EIA). Nuclear power plant locations and nameplate capacity of the top 10 states. Power plants map August 2016. This article lists the largest nuclear power stations in the United States, in terms of Nameplate capacity.
In March, a subsidiary of the company bought a nuclear-powered data center in Pennsylvania. And a deal with a nuclear plant on the East Coast to supply power for Amazon Web Services is said to be ...