Nuclear power plants

 
 Nuclear generating plants are a kind of thermal generating station, because they operate by heat in the same way as generating steam. Then this steam rotates the turbines, which rotate the rotor from the electric generator and generate electrical energy on the stationary parts of the generator.

   The main difference between conventional steam stations and nuclear plants is that in nuclear power plants the fuel-burning furnace is replaced by a reactor that generates heat as a result of the fission of uranium and uses this enormous thermal energy to evaporate the water in the boilers and convert it into Vapor with high pressure and high temperature

   This reactor needs a insulation wall and beams of atomic radiation and therefore consists of a layer of fire bricks, a layer of water and a layer of steel and then a layer of cement up to two meters to protect the workers in the plant and the surrounding environment from pollution by atomic radiation.

   The world's first nuclear power plant was carried out in 1954 and was in the Soviet Union with a capacity of 5 megawatts.


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