1. By: Bobby McCormick, Meghan Ellis, Audrey Quinn and Michael Finnan.
Nuclear Power
By: Bobby McCormick, Meghan Ellis, Audrey Quinn and Michael Finnan.

2. How is nuclear power created
There are two ways of producing nuclear energy and both ways release enormous amounts of energy.
One way to produce it is nuclear fission. This is when the nucleus of an atom of uranium can be split into two.
The other way is nuclear fusion. This is when the nuclei of the atoms of the gas Hydrogen cannot be split, but they can be squeezed together.

3. Advantages of Nuclear Power
When created it does not create air pollution. The white vapor coming from the towers is steam.
A small amount of uranium can make large amounts of energy.
A handful of uranium can make as much electricity as seven train cars loaded with coal.
Since 1955, The United States Navy has used nuclear energy to power submarines and large ships called aircraft carriers.
The radiation in nuclear power is used for x-rays.
Even though it creates waste, it doesn’t create a lot of it.
It is the most powerful type of energy.

4. Disadvantages of Nuclear Power.
It gives of radiation, which can cause cancer.
The waste stays radioactive for more then 1,000 years.
It is deadly and nobody has found an effective and safe way to dispose of it.
Nuclear power plants can only last fifty years because of the effects radiation can have. This means we have to build new plants about every fifty years.
Nuclear energy can be used as a weapons and bombs.
It’s nonrenewable source of energy.

5. Nuclear Reactors Located in a nuclear power station are reactors.
This happens inside of a reactor. The energy of a reactor heats the water in the boiler. The water boils and then produces steam. The steam burns the huge turbine wheels and the turbines drive the generator that produces energy.
Inside of the core of this equipment energy is released by nuclear fission.
Nuclear fission has to be controlled carefully.

6. Nuclear Reactors The fuel inside of a reactor is the metal Uranium.
Inside a reactor, the nuclei of Uranium is split. Then a chain reaction is created.
A chain reaction is when the nucleus of an atom of uranium is spilt and the neutrons released hit other atoms, making them split. Then more energy is released each time another atom splits.
A nuclear reactor is sealed inside a shield of reinforced concrete.

7. Safety Equipment
Nuclear power gives off radiation which can be harmful to living things.
For this reason, when humans are around nuclear power they MUST be covered from head to toe.
When getting an x-ray, you have to wear a lead apron to prevent radiation from harming you.
This is why a nuclear reactor has a shield of reinforced concrete around it.

8. Nuclear Accidents
There have been two major accidents involving nuclear power and nuclear power plants.
One took place in Pennsylvania on Three Mile Island. It happened in 1979 and it damaged the reactors. Only a small amount of radiation was leaked.
Another one, which was more serious, took place in Chernobyl in the Ukraine. An explosion and fire caused this accident. It happened in 1986 and radiation was leaked all over Europe.
In France, three workers were contaminated after they walked into a plant without protective clothing. They were later jailed for this not dressing properly.

9. More Nuclear Disasters
In 1997,after a fire and explosion in Tokaimura, Japan broke out. Thirty-five workers were contaminated with radiation.
In 1981, 100,000 gallons of fluid of radioactive coolant was leaked and eight workers were contaminated.
In the winter of 1958, a serious accident happened and hundreds died of radiation.
In 1957, the first large nuclear accident took place.
There was a fire and a radiation leak at the Windscale reactor in Great Britain.
The International Atomic Energy Agency was then set up by the United Nations

10. Fun Facts
Uranium 235 is the most common fuel used for generating nuclear power.
In 1789, Martin Kalproth discovered uranium.
In 1895, Wilhelm Rontgen discovered x-rays.
In 1896, Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity.
In 1919, Ernest Rutherford became the first person to split the atom.
In 1939, scientists in Denmark, France, the United States.

11. More Fun Facts
In 1942, Enrico Fermi demonstrated the worlds first nuclear reactor in Chicago on December 2.
In 1945, the first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico. But the first atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan, then a second atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki, Japan.
In 1947, the first nuclear reactor in Western Europe was constructed at Harwell in England.
In 1956, the worlds first commercial power plant commissioned at Calder Hall in England.
In 1995, despite the protests around the world, French scientists carried out underground nuclear test explosions in the South Pacific.
Within fifty years, it is possible that the first commercial fusion could be in operation.

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