10 major illusions, legends and independent engineering facts that are known for nuclear energy in society.
fuel to form a nuclear explosion 90% and above It is necessary to be enriched at the level of weapons and compacted in microseconds with special blasting geometry. fuel used in power reactors only %3 to 5% enriched by the ratio. 95% of fuel consists of neutron ingestion U-238, which is caused by uncontrolled supercritical nuclear explosion.
Sea water used in cooling, with primary water circuit in the reactor heart never contact; only steam-intensified condenser pipes. Temperature difference of discharged water according to environmental regulations at discharge point up to 1-2°C Can. The water is quickly mixed by spraying outdoor sea with deep sea diffusers. In addition, since it is forbidden to hunt in security areas around the power plants, these areas turn into sheltered reproductive areas.
The only sector in which the waste produced in the energy sector is nuclear. The used fuel is never poured into the ground or not left into nature. In the first years it is cooled in water pools, then it is taken into solid steel-beton dry storage barrels resistant to air and earthquake shock. More, closed fuel cycle Home With uranium inside the used fuel and 96% of the plutonium, it is refueled.
The sun does not produce electricity at night, the wind depends on weather conditions (capacity factors are between 15-35%). It produces 24/7 constant electricity for the collapse of the network and continuous operation of factories, hospitals base load (base load) plants need. Nuclear power plants With capacity factor over 90% This base load ensures zero carbon; it prepares the ground to be safely integrated into the grid of the sun and wind.
In the mean year of soil, cosmic rays and foods all over the world 2.4 to 3.0 mSv natural background radiation. An annual additional radiation dose from a person who lives 365 days at a limit of 1 km of a nuclear power plant u Less than 0.005 mSv. This amount is the same as 1 banana meal or 1 hour aircraft ride; there is no negative impact that can be measured on human health.
Akkuyu site is located in the 5th-degree earthquake region in the seismic danger map of Turkey. The design of the plant is made by adding at least two solid safety coefficient (0.4g) of the most severe earthquake acceleration, which can be seen in 10.000 years. The trap is closed automatically with the SCRAM system in reactor milliseconds instantly, and the passive safety pools reactor running with gravity even if it is not electricity, is 72 hours continuous cooling.
No fossil fuel in nuclear power plants is fireproof; hence let the flue gas, carbonmonoxide, sulfur dioxide or organization release zero. The white cloud, which is seen from the cooling towers, is the clean water droplets that are steamed during the cooling of the steam, which turns the turbines (such as steam from a steam that comes out of a steam). Nuclear energy has the same life cycle carbon density (~12 g CO2/kWh).
The RBMK reactor design led to the Chernobyl accident in 1986 had two deadly defects: positive space reactivity coefficient (heated reaction) and no thick protection shell (containment). Today’s 3+ Generation PWR/VVER reactors negative reactivity coefficient It has (temperature procedural reaction spontaneously stops), contains passive hydrogen removers and is equipped with resistant protection shells to double-walled aircraft crashes with meters of thickness.
The fuel price in natural gas or coal plants constitutes 70%-80% of the cost of electricity production, so electric bills are folded in global crisis. The share of uranium fuel in nuclear energy is the cost of electricity production only 10%-15. Even if the price of the uranium is doubled, the electricity cost increases only around 5%. Nuclear is the most stable economic buffer that protects countries from global energy shocks.
Turkey has very rich torium reserves; but the toryum can not only do direct filaments (not fissile). In order to produce the energy of the toryum in a reactor, it is necessary to convert the reaction to U-233 with the support of enriched uranium or plutonium. Torium Ergimiş Salt Reactors (MSR) is the most promising technology of the future; but it is necessary to complete global R & D and licensing processes to be widespread in the commercial grid scale.
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