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Nuclear Fission and Reactors: Easwari Engineering College
Nuclear Fission and Reactors: Easwari Engineering College
EASWARI
ENGINEERING
COLLEGE
(AUTONOMOUS)
RAMAPURAM CHENNAI
Sustainable Development
Goals and Targets
Report Contents
Part 1: Fundamentals and How Part 2: Fission Reactors Part 3: Fusion Reactors
does it work
sectors in India
Coal
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Hydro
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Part 1:
How Does it
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Work!?
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Mass Defect of heavy atoms become unstable and split into two medium
mass parts, and nuclear fusion occurs when light atoms are
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m=E/c
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mEnergy =BE/c
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Definition
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Part 2:
The Reactors
Nuclear Fission
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Nuclear fission
141 92 1
Ba + Kr + 3 n + Q
235 1 236 56 36 0
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U + 0n U*
92 140 94 1
Xe 54+ Sr + 382 n + Q
0
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3 Coolant 4 Shielding
used to remove heat from the nuclear reactor core and transfer it to shielding is used to stop any kind of
electrical generators
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Pressurized Water
Reactor
PWR has fuel assemblies of 200-300 rods each,
arranged vertically in the core, and a large reactor
would have about 150-250 fuel assemblies with 80-100
tonnes of uranium.
Water in the reactor core reaches about 325°C, hence it must be kept under about 150 times atmospheric
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Boiling Water
Reactor
A BWR similar to PWR except that there is only a
single circuit in which the water is at lower pressure
(about 75 times atmospheric pressure) so that it boils in
the core at about 285°C.
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Fast Neutron or
Breeder Reactor
A breeder Reactor is one that converts non-fissionable
(Fertile) material to Fissionable material.
238 1 239 -
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U+ n
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Pu
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+ 2e
239 1 1
94
Pu + n Fission Products + 3 n
0 0
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Part 3:
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Nuclear Fusion
Fusion is the process by which the sun and
other stars generate light and heat
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Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the Sun and the stars,
is a potential source of safe, non-carbon emitting and virtually
limitless energy.
It doesn't occur in room temperature.
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In current nuclear fusion reactors, the hydrogen isotopes tritium and deuterium are used as the fuel, with
atomic energy released when their nuclei fuse to create helium and a neutron.
However, the so-termed "fast" neutrons released by nuclear fusion reactors fuelled by tritium and
deuterium lead to significant energy loss and are extremely difficult to contain. One potential solution may
be to use helium-3.
But the problem is that the availability of He-3 is very low in Earth and the ones from Sun are blocked by
Earth's magnetic field, But our neighbour moon doesn't have an atmosphere, Therefore it might have much
He-3 due to the solar winds.
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Website https://www.explainingthefuture.
References com/helium3.html
Nptel lectures
Thank you! Text book
World Nuclear.org
Nuclear energy
Any Questions?!?!
References
- Charles.D Ferguson
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