what are the functions of the main components of a nuclear power plant?
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Reactor : To generate heat. Thats where the radioactive stuff is.\n\nModerating Rods : to control the rate of heat release from the reactor.\n\nBoiler : To generate steam and to cool down the reactor. (Moderating rods are used assuming what is called a heat load on the boiler ie that its full of water and making steam. What happened at Three Mile Island was that they thought there was water in the boiler and there wasn't)\n\nTurbine : to make electricity from the steam\n\nCondenser : to turn the steam back to water (If the turbine is not a condensing turbine)\n\nPump : to pump the condensed water back into the boiler\n\nInstrumentation : measuring flows, pressures, temperatures, liquid levels etc, and lots and lots of it to let you know whats happening and keep the thing safe. (what happened at Chernoble is that the emergency instrumentation was "overridden" which means its didn't shut the plant down when it should have)\n\nConcrete : to keep everything isolated.\n\nA very simple overview, hope it was interesting.
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Too many to list them in a single answer.\n\nStarting with infrastructure:\n\nEmergency shower, other emergency equipment (fire extinguisher, eye-shower...)\n\nchemical-resistant benches, water leads, wastewater leads. Optionally gases, steam, deionized water.\nElectrical leads.\n\nflue, laminar flow workbenches...\n\nGlassware: lots of different forms, special glasses...\nCeramics, metal vessels...\n\nAnalytical instruments and machines, starting with stirrers, heaters or shakers, thermometres, electrodes, and going on to fully automatted multi-element analysis or biological reactors.\n\nYour average lab catalogue usually shows only part of what can be in a scientific chemistry laboratory.
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Atoms are the building blocks from which matter is formed. Everything around us is made up of atoms. Nuclear energy is contained within the center of the atom in a place known as the nucleus. Particles within the nucleus are held together by a strong force. If a large nucleus is split apart (fission), generous amounts of energy can be liberated. Small nuclei can also be combined (fusion) with an accompanying release of energy. Using this strong force that holds the nucleus together to produce energy is essentially what the field of nuclear power generation is about.\n  In the fission process certain heavy elements, such as some forms of Uranium, are split when a neutron strikes them. When they split, they release energy in the form of kinetic energy (heat) and radiation. The process not only produces energy but also additional neutrons that can be used to fission other Uranium nuclei and start a chain reaction.\n  In fusion, nuclei of light elements are brought together under conditions of high pressure and temperature, causing them to combine and produce new elements and energy.
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there is not much of a difference just that atomic bombs were the first to be built they both operate the same way. nuclear energy is taking the action of a nuclear bomb and controlling it to make power. what happens is the nuclear action that a reactor has produces heat which is absorbed by water that then turns to steam and the steam is used to turn a turbine that produces electricity.
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study of the chemical processes and transformations in living organisms .. to study of the structure and function of cellular components, such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules ..
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All power plants convert heat into electricity using steam. At nuclear power plants, the heat to make the steam is created when atoms split apart.
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Its overall function is to collect information about the external conditions in relation to the body's internal state, to analyze this information, and to initiate appropriate responses to satisfy certain needs (Maintain Homeostasis). The most powerful of these needs is survival.
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In Richard Feynman's book "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman" he listed a number of uses for nuclear power. Everything from generating electricty to nuclear powered aircraft.
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A piece of uranium or plutonium is put in water, and then the water begins to boil releasing a large ammount of of energy. That energy is collected. What`s left over from this reaction is known as nuclear waste.
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the nuclear fision is mainly carried out in an atomic reactor. It is an process in which a nucleus of heavy atoms like Uranium splits into two nuclei of smaller masses and a large amount of energy is produced. This energy is known as nuclear energy.\nThe Nuclear Fusion is the process in which the nuclei of two different elements fuse or combine to form one and huge amount of energy is produced. This process takes place in Sun.
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a reactor is a container designed such that a chemical reaction can safely be performed in it.  It usually has many pipes into and out of it for fluid transfer, and gauges to measure temperature and pressure.
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atoms splitting apart by fission and protons clinging to the control rods in the reactor. there is steam produced also. and if you REALLY wanna see physical changes, jump in!
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The basics....\n\n1. Burn something\n2. Whatever is burnt, boils water that turns into steam.\n3. The steam is used to turn turbines \n4. the turbines generate electricity\n\nFor a more detailed answer, go to howstuffworks.com or wikipedia.
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Hi, Kenny. You are asking for a lot of information. I have written a book, on the history of nuclear science and will link you to it to read online. This space here is awfully limited.\n\nThe short answer is that nuclear science allows us to generate electrical power out in space even when we are far away from stars like the sun. \n\nThere are two ways we do that:\n\n1. Nuclear reactors - just like the atomic power plants on earth, reactors depend upon the splitting of uranium or plutonium atoms to generate heat and then the heat is used to boil a liquid and turn a turbine. The turbine moves a coil of wire through a magnetic field and gives you electricity.\n\n2. Thermopyles - plutonium due to its alpha radioactive decay gets pretty hot naturally. If you put two dissimilar wires wrapped around each other in a heat source and then the other end of the wires in somewhere cold (like out in space), electrons will flow through them. This is called a thermocouple. If you put lots of those together, you have what is called a thermopyle. This kind of technology is pretty flawless and is used even for things like heart pacemakers.
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Here is a little information about Nuclear Energy:\nhttp://home.clara.net/darvill/altenerg/nuclear.htm
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laboratory apparatus ang its function
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm