20 Interesting Facts About Nuclear Energy!

 The Cooling Tower, most famous building in nuclear power plan LOL!

1) Nuclear energy supplies electricity each year to serve 60 million homes.

2) Less radiation is given off by a nuclear power plant than a coal-burning plant.

Clearly, this is easy to choose!

3) Statistics show that it is safer to work at a nuclear power plant than in the manufacturing sector.

4) If 10,000 schools turned off their lights for one minute it could save RM245,655.

5) France exports electricity from nuclear power for profit.

France. She is still a very attractive country, right?

6) 17% of the world's electricity came from 442 nuclear power plants in 1996.

7) The economic activity of a U.S. nuclear plant generates on average around $20 million in state and local tax revenues.

8) You would have to live near a nuclear power plant for over 2,000 years to get the same amount of radiation exposure that you get from a single diagnostic medical x-ray.

9) There are nearly 100 different nuclear medicine imaging procedures available today.

10) Almost 3 million Americans live within 10 miles of an operating nuclear power plant.

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11) Nuclear energy comes from uranium, a nonrenewable resource that must be mined.

12) Every 18 to 24 months, a power plant must shut down to remove its spent uranium fuel, which has become radioactive waste.

13) Nuclear power plants generate nearly three-fourths of America's clean-air energy.

14) Nuclear energy is produced by a controlled nuclear chain reaction and creates heat—which is used to boil water, produce steam, and drive a steam turbine. 

15) Nuclear power plants need less fuel than ones which burn fossil fuels. One ton of uranium produces more energy than is produced by several million tons of coal or several million barrels of oil. 

16) In France, nuclear power is the most widespread, supplying 80 percent of the country's electricity. A protest movement exists, called Sortir du Nucléaire, or "Get Out of Nuclear," but it appears to have made little headway. 

17) Nuclear energy was first discovered accidentally by French physicist Henri Becquerel in 1896, when he found that photographic plates stored in the dark near uranium were blackened like X-ray plates, which had been just recently discovered at the time. 

Antoine Henri Becquerel

18) On June 27, 1954, the USSRs Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant became the world's first nuclear power plant to generate electricity for a power grid, and produced around 5 megawatts electric power. 

19) Nuclear power is the only energy industry which takes full responsibility for all its wastes, and costs this into the product.

20) Nuclear energy would be dominant source of energy by now if it hadn't been Chernobyl and Three Miles island (nuclear disasters).

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                                          NUCLEAR BOY IS CHILLING AROUND!