Chernobyl

Question 1

What is Nuclear Power?

Answer 1

It is electric or motive power generated by a nuclear reactor/reaction.

Question 2

What is the first stage of Nuclear Energy creation?

Answer 2

A reactor vessel houses uranium (highly reactive element), neutrons are fired at the Uranium causing them to split and release more neutrons that hit other Uranium atoms, this is called a chain reaction and the splitting of a Uranium atom releases great heat.

Question 3

Step 2?

Answer 3

Water is passed through the reactor vessel containing extremely heated uranium which heats the water to about 300° without boiling or evaporating due to the oressurised vessel.

Question 4

Step 3?

Answer 4

The hot water is circulated through a steam generator with a coolant pump

Question 5

Step 4?

Answer 5

The extremely hot, pressurised water is passed through thousands of tubes that contain another stream of water on the outside of the pipe, this water is under less pressure so it is heated until it boils into Steam.

Question 6

Step 5?

Answer 6

Steam passes through a series od turbines which causes them to spin, converting the heat energy to mechanical energ which is passed through a generator which uses EM fields to convert that mechanical energy to electrical energy.

Question 7

Step 6?

Answer 7

A transformer converts the electrical energy to high voltages passed to the National grid.

Question 8

Step 7?

Answer 8

Power pines transfer the high voltage electricity to your homes which is thentranformed to a lower voltage, usable level.

Question 9

Step 8?

Answer 9

Once the steam has done its job at the generator, it is cooled and re-used for the same purpose.

Question 10

Why is Nuclear Power not as sustainable as it is pictured to be?

Answer 10

People think since the plants themselves don’t emit greenhouse gases, that the whole operation doesn’t do so. The mining itself for the uranium releases many greenhouse gases

Question 11

When did Chernobyl happen?

Answer 11

1986

Question 12

Chernobyl Social Impacts

Answer 12

Loss of many jobs, people having to evacuate their homes due to radioactivity, people had to be exposed to high levels of radioactivity to help clean up

Question 13

Chernobyl economical impacts?

Answer 13

The company behind Reactor 4 lost a lot of money, businesses relying on electricity begin to fail, the government has to reconstruct, evaquate, clean up. These things take money.

Question 14

Long term impacts of Chernobyl?

Answer 14

Birth defects, dangerous counts of radioactivity surrounding the area, ghost cities. Crops aroundnthe area sufferreatly.