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What is Nuclear Power
Title: What is Nuclear Power
Category: Science & Technology
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What is Nuclear Power
Most of the world’s electricity is generated by either thermal or hydroelectric power plants. Thermal power plants use fuel to boil water which makes steam. The steam turns turbines that generate electricity. Hydroelectric power plants use the great force of rushing water from a dam or a waterfall to turn the turbines. The majority of thermal power plants burn fossil fuels because thermal power plants are cheaper to maintain and have to meet less …showed first 75 words of 1485 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1485 total…Bibliography "DOE’s Yucca Mountain Studies." A repository is an enormous challenge. URL: http://www.ymp.gov/faq/facts/geninfo/y0343p.htm (4 Feb. 1997) "General Information." What is nuclear fuel and waste? URL: http://www.ymp.gov/faq/facts/geninfo/Y338P.HTM (4 Feb. 1997) INFOPEDIA. Vers. 1.5. Computer software. Future Vision Multimedia, 1995. IBM Windows 3.1, 30KB, CD-ROM. Shulman, Seth. "Waiting Game for Nuclear Waste." Technology Review Aug. - Sept. 1992: 14-15. World Book. 22 Volumes. Vol.14 and 16. Chicago: World Book, Inc., 1988
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