Nuclear Energy

Is Nuclear Energy Renewable or non-renewable?

• Nuclear energy is non-renewable

Methods of Extraction/Collection of resource

• Extracted through deep underground shafts, mined, generated using Uranium, which is a metal mined in various parts of the world.
• Collected through fuel pellets

Transportation/heating/electrical generation

• The U.S. Department of Energy transports used nuclear fuel to the repository by rail and road, inside massive, sealed containers that have undergone safety and durability testing. A nuclear reactor produces and controls the release of energy from splitting the atoms of uranium. Uranium-fuelled nuclear power is a clean and efficient way of boiling water to make steam which drives turbine generators. Except for the reactor itself, a nuclear power station works like most coal or gas-fired power stations.

Resources Used

• The main resource is Uranium, its imported,Nuclear power plants obtain the heat that it needs to produce steam through a physical process. The process is called fission, it’s the splitting of atoms of uranium in a nuclear reactor. The uranium fuel consists of small, hard ceramic pellets that are packaged into long, vertical tubes.

How Is It Generated?

• Nuclear Energy is generated by fission which is the splitting of the atoms of the isotope, Uranium. The heat produced by fission turns water into steam which then drives turbine generators to produce electricity.

Pollution?

• Nuclear pollution can be caused by several human activities such as the creation of nuclear weapons or making fuels.

Benefits

• lower greenhouse gas emissions, cheaper electricity, lower fuel cost, and easier transportation

Precautions

• Requires vast amounts of water for cooling,spent fuel rods are highly radioactive and remain so for thousands of years, nuclear power plants are very expensive to build and and take many years to complete….. can be very dangerous if proper precautions aren't taken during mining, transporting and storing and storing waste products… Can also have radiation leaks…

Video

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7LO8lL4Ai4