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 wa ....
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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 n ....
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