IB 2012 Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 Hi!Can anyone tell me which energy transformations take place in a nuclear power station?I have been looking all over the internet but I cant find anythingThanks! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake Glau Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 Nuclear power plants? That would be fission. Unless you mean something else by "transformation" O.o Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slovakov Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 (edited) Nuclear energy of fission is turned to thermal energy of water, which turns into steam and transfering into mechanical energy of a turbine of a generator which turns this mechanical energy to electircal energy. As I remember this is all. Edited June 1, 2011 by Slovakov Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake Glau Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 (edited) Oh, that thing. Yea that's it unless you want to add that the turbine spins which contains a magnetic inside causing the electrical energy to be formed through magnetic induction of w/e, some HL topic. Edited June 1, 2011 by Drake Glau Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Kuno Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 Hi!Can anyone tell me which energy transformations take place in a nuclear power station?I have been looking all over the internet but I cant find anythingThanks!No website said that nuclear reactors are fission o.0It works the same as a typical combustion power plant, however, instead of burning fossil fuels to heat the water, nuclear reactions heat the water. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezeh Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 Hi!Can anyone tell me which energy transformations take place in a nuclear power station?I have been looking all over the internet but I cant find anythingThanks!No website said that nuclear reactors are fission o.0It works the same as a typical combustion power plant, however, instead of burning fossil fuels to heat the water, nuclear reactions heat the water.I think it was more the fact the none said that energy is transformed from chemical potential -> heat -> mechanical -> electrical Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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