Saturday, July 26, 2008

Nuclear Reactor


Should we implement nuclear power? This is one of the issues that is still among debates of current world. There were nuclear reactor explosions leaving a large piece of land devastated for decades. However, it is one of the best replacement form of power generator for the future world when fossil fuels are vanishing at the speed of light. So, in today's blog, I shall let you all know how does this nuclear reactor work and what is actually happening in there.


According to http://www.nucleartourist.com/basics/basic.htm, when a neutron strikes a uranium-235 nucleus in the Fuel, sometimes the nucleus will split, or fission, into 2 unequally sized nuclei called fission fragments. They are the major contributor to heat production in the fuel (~80%). This heat gets transmitted to the coolant outside the fuel. Also produced are between 2 and 3 neutrons.


Complicated? I'll better elaborate using a different example. I wrote a blog post called Wave. The wave hits the blogging world and more people starts their own personal blog. Thus, more people are utilizing internet. Produced alongside with this process are 3 other blog post in 3 different blogs related to the blog post called Wave. First, Second, Third.


Yeah, never knew my blog post was so influential..

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Titus said...

wtf...

Adrian said...

bro, you seem to have interest in lots of complex stuff...is it part of the course ??

Victor da Lee said...

nope.. just one day, i got to know that 3 blogs were talking about my one post, and the only thing that came to my mind is nuclear power

lauwy said...

LOL... that is like so random =P