A Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) or Nuclear Power Station is an electrical generating facility using a nuclear reactor as its heat source, to provide steam to a turbine that converts atomic energy into usable power.
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Example Article of the Nuclear Power:
Russia Mulls Putting Nuclear Power Plant on Moon (Source: Oil Price on 5 March 2024): By Julianne Geiger - Russia is considering a nuclear power plant installation on the moon starting between 2033 and 2035, according to the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos. Russia—along with China—is considering the idea of placing a nuclear power plant on the moon over the next decade or so, and the two countries have been working together on a lunar program for nuclear space energy. “Today we are seriously considering a project—somewhere at the turn of 2033-2035—to deliver and install a power unit on the lunar surface together with our Chinese colleagues,” Yuri Borisov, head of Roscosmos said on Tuesday. ...
Why Nuclear Power Expansion Predictions Failed (Source: Oil Price on 26 November 2023): By Brian Westenhaus - A University of Reading team of researchers looked back at a model that predicted nuclear power would expand dramatically in order to assess the efficacy of energy policies implemented today. Results published in the journal Risk Analysis showed the team found simulations that inform energy policy had unreliable assumptions built into them and that they need more transparency about their limitations. To improve this they recommend new ways to test simulations and be upfront about their uncertainties. This includes methods like ‘sensitivity auditing’, which evaluates model assumptions. The goal is to improve modeling and open up decision-making. The widespread adoption of nuclear power was predicted by computer simulations more than four decades ago. But a new study has shown the continued reliance on fossil fuels for energy need improvement. ...
MIT Study: Nuclear Power Shutdown Could Lead To Increased Deaths (Source: Oil price on 19 April 2023): By Brian Westenhaus - A Massachusetts Institute of Technology new study shows that if U.S. nuclear power plants are retired, the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas to fill the energy gap could cause more than 5,000 premature deaths. The MIT team took on the questions in the text following in a new study appearing in Nature Energy. Nearly 20 percent of today’s electricity in the United States comes from nuclear power. The U.S. has the largest nuclear fleet in the world, with 92 reactors scattered around the country. Many of these power plants have run for more than half a century and are approaching the end of their expected lifetimes. Policymakers are debating whether to retire the aging reactors or reinforce their structures to continue producing nuclear energy, which many consider a low-carbon alternative to climate-warming coal, oil, and natural gas. ...
Six Years Late And 250% Over Budget: Georgia’s Newest Nuclear Plant (Source: Oil Price on 12 May 2022): By Leonard Hyman & William Tilles - It has not been a good week for advocates of new nuclear power plant construction in the US. An energy cooperative in Georgia, the Municipal Energy Authority of Georgia (MEAG), announced in a recent filing that the new twin unit Vogtle 3 and 4 nuclear generating stations approaching completion in Waynesboro, Georgia were now likely to cost roughly $34 billion. MEAG, along with other electric co-ops like Oglethorpe Power and Dalton Utilities own minority stakes in the nuclear facility along with majority owner Georgia Power. The two Westinghouse design AP1000 reactors, which are now scheduled to enter commercial service in 2023, were originally estimated to cost $14 billion and enter commercial service in 2016/2017, that is, six years late and 250% over budget. And people wonder why this technology is still struggling for commercial respectability. ...
Ukraine's Nuclear Power Plants (Source: Statista on 4 March 2022): by Martin Armstrong - A fire broke out on the site of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant after a Russian attack last night. According to information from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, a training centre of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, located in the immediate vicinity of the reactors, was hit by a projectile. As this infographic shows, the nuclear power plant is located in South-Eastern Ukraine. The region is contested, but as of March 3, not yet occupied by Russia. The IAEA also said that according to the Ukrainian government, no increased radioactivity had been measured in the vicinity of the plant, and that staff had taken "measures to minimize the risk". There had already been fighting last week near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, where the worst nuclear accident in history occurred in 1986. The nuclear ruin is now controlled by Russian troops. The Rivne, Khmelnytskyi and South Ukraine nuclear power plants, on the other hand, are not yet under Russian command. Should Putin continue to pursue his goal of bringing all of Ukraine under his control, these nuclear power plants will also be threatened by combat operations. ...
Why Did Nuclear Power Fail The First Time Around? (Source: Oil Price on 23 November 2021): By Leonard Hyman & William Tilles - Now that the Glasgow conference and some mighty public relations work have put nuclear energy back in the spotlight, maybe it is worth examining why nuclear dismally failed to meet expectations, which might tell us why the nuclear advocates (some of them, anyway) are moving in new directions at long last, after clinging for decades to a model that did not work. First, let’s understand that most nuclear power plants work in the sense that they produce electricity, and they have been working far better than in the past. The problems, largely, lie in how nuclear fits into the picture economically and societally. The historian Thomas Hughes chose to define a technology not just as the machinery and software (technical) but as an entire system composed of technical, economic, safety, and other components all working toward a common goal. In this case, the engineers who decided to enlarge a nuclear submarine engine into something bigger, and those who jumped on the opportunity, missed a lot of the picture. ...
