NUCLEAR ENERGY

Nuclear power is produced when the atoms that make up enriched uranium are split. Uranium is mined from the ground, just like coal or copper or silver ore. The uranium is then formed into pellets that are put in tubes inside a nuclear reactor.

Fission also creates radiation, which in high doses can hurt people. 

Altough many people do not know it, there are two different types of nuclear power plants, which make energy in different ways:

• Boiling-water reactors turn water into steam in the reactor core, and the steam turns the plant´s turbine and generator. 
• Pressurized-water reactors do not turn water to steam in the reactor core. The water passing through the core is very hot, but it is kept under pressure as liquid. It flows a separate are of the plant called a steam generator, where it turns a second supply of water into steam