nuclear plant
Fission power station
A nuclear plant is a facility that generates electricity using nuclear fission—the splitting of atoms to produce heat, which creates steam to drive turbines.
Also called a nuclear power plant.
The term sometimes extends to facilities processing nuclear materials for other purposes: The accident at the nuclear plant contaminated surrounding farmland.
- fissionNuclear breakup releasing energy
- fuel rodsEncased fissile material tubes
- control rodsNeutron-absorbing reactor components
- cooling towersIndustrial heat-removal structures
- uranium enrichmentRaising fissile isotope proportion
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- nuclear radiationradiation exposure, radiation poisoning, radioactive isotopes, fallout, cesium-137
- power gridpower grid, transformers, power station, transmission lines, power line
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- Zaporizhzhiahydroelectric station
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Electricity station burning fossil fuel
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Facility refining underground hydrocarbons
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