I've heard aluminum is linked to Alzheimer'sSo if I line a pan with it and use it in the oven will it leach into the food? Is this true for things like chicken or should I only worry about acidic foods? I don't use aluminum cookwareI'm mostly just worried about the tin foil.
You need enriched uranium, so that it has enough Uranium-235 (Uranium with a mass of 235The most common isotope has 238 mass units)If it catches a neutron, it becomes unstable and breaks downWhich releases more neutronsIf you have enough U-235 atoms close to each other, then the neutrons will hit other U-235 atoms and cause a chain reactionThe rate of reaction is kept constant by dipping control rods into the reactantThese rods (often made from boron or similar) absorb some of the neutrons to slow down the reactionThey keep it at a constant rateThe source of energy is the nuclear binding energy of the uraniumIt turns out that the average mass of a uranium nucleon (proton or neutron) is a little bit higher than the average mass of the Barium and Krypton protons/neutrons that result from hte reactionThis difference in mass is the source of the energyYou can calculate the amount of energy using Einstein's famous equation Emc^2E is energy, m is mass and c^2 is the speed of light squaredFrom then on, the water jacket is heated up by this energy, it creates steam and this powers a turbine which generates electricityThere are lots of arguments over the costs; the IAEA say it's cheaper in the long run than almost anything else, a US report said that it costs about $59 per MWh (coal is about $53)It doesn't create greenhouse gases or air pollution though, which does make it worth a bit more.
Nuclear Energy in itself is just energy cased by nuclear reactionsIf you're asking how a nuclear power plant works, it creates a small nuclear reaction, which turns a large amount of water into high pressure steam, which powers turbines that generate electricityAdvantages: VERY efficientMinimal pollutionEnormous amounts of power generatedDisadvantages: It's basically a nuclear reactorif it blows it's like a nuclear bomb going offRadioactive waste materialHigh security needed to guard against people who want to steal the Uranium for weapons purposes.
There are two kinds alsoFusion and fission Fission forces a bigger molecule to break down into smaller moleculesThe spent rods take a long time to decaythousands of yearsFusion is what the sun and other stars useIt take light elements and makes them largerTurns helium, for example into a larger elementThe rods take maybe 25-50 years to decay which is greatNuclear plants are safe, alternative ways to power AmericaThey are built better nowadays and don't need to worry about a nuclear melt down like Chernobyl.
Those studies have never been proven scientificallyUse the aluminum foil.
