List the advantages of nuclear power plants over conventional thermal power plants.

      

List the advantages of nuclear power plants over conventional thermal power plants.

  

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gregory
(i) A nuclear power plant is completely free of air pollution.
(ii) It requires very little fuel in terms of volume and weight and therefore poses
no transportation problems. The nuclear power plant may be sited,
independently of nuclear fuel supplies, close to load centres. However safety
considerations require that these plants be normally located away from
populated areas.
(iii) When one pound of pure uranium is completely fissioned it will create as
much heat as the burning of 1500 tons of coal.
(iv) Whereas the stock of coal is limited and the supply of coal will go down in the
coming decades, it is the nuclear energy that is promising. Nuclear power
plants will therefore be important sources of electrical power in future.
gregorymasila answered the question on February 20, 2018 at 16:07


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