Nuclear Power
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Most of the world's electricity is generated by either thermal or
hydroelectric power plants. Thermal power plants use fuel to boil water which
makes steam. The steam turns turbines that generate electricity. Hydroelectric
power plants use the great force of rushing water from a dam or a waterfa ....
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.... power plant.
The main reason most countries use thermal versus the hydroelectric is because
their countries don't have enough concentrated water to create enough energy to
generate electricity. (World Book vol. 14, 586) Nuclear power plants generate
only about eleven percent of the world's electricity. There are around 316
nuclear power plants in the world that create 213,000 megawatts of electricity.
(INFOPEDIA) Radioactive, or nuclear, waste is the by-product of nuclear fission.
Fissio ....
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