Kuasa nuklear

**[[Kuasa (fizik)|Kuasa]] nuklear** () ialah sebarang teknologi nuklear yang direka bagi menghasilkan tenaga berguna daripada nukleus-nukleus atom melalui tindak balas nuklear terkawal. 

Kaedah yang digunakan untuk menjana tenaga ialah melalui pembelahan nuklear dan pereputan radioaktif. Namun, teknologi untuk pelakuran nuklear sedang giat dijalankan. 

Kesemua reaktor skala utiliti memanaskan air bagi menghasilkan stim,  kemudian ditukarkan kepada kerja mekanikal untuk menghasilkan tenaga elektrik atau pendorongan. Pada tahun 2015, 10.7% daripada kuasa elektrik di dunia datangnya daripada kuasa nuklear. Selain itu, lebih daripada 150 buah kapal berkuasa nuklear juga telah dibina, dan beberapa buah roket radioisotop telah dikeluarkan. Kuasa nuklear adalah satu sumber kuasa rendah karbon.

Tenaga nuklear mempunyai kadar kematian per unit tenaga yang terendah berbanding dengan sumber tenaga lain. Arang batu, petroleum, gas asli dan hidroelektrik menyebabkan lebih banyak kematian per unit tenaga disebabkan pencemaran udara dan kemalangan. Sejak pengkomersialannya pada 1970-an, tenaga nuklear menghalang 1.84 juta kematian melibatkan pencemaran udara dan pembebasan 64 bilion tan nilai karbon dioksida setara yang dihasilkan oleh bahan api fosil.

## Lihat juga

## Rujukan

* An entry to nuclear power through an educational discussion of reactors
* The Nuclear Energy Option, online book by Bernard L. Cohen.
* Steve Thomas (2005), , PSIRU, University of Greenwich, UK
* Nuclear power information archives from ALSOS, the National Digital Science Library at Washington & Lee University.
* Texas Will Host First New U.S. Nuclear Plants since 1970s 
**Power to Save the World: the Truth about Nuclear Energy* / Gwyneth Cravens (2007) ISBN 0307266567

## Pautan luar

* Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues — Annotated Bibliography on Nuclear Power 
* An entry to nuclear power through an educational discussion of reactors
* Argonne National Laboratory — Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors
* Boiling Water Reactor Plant, BWR Simulator Program
* Briefing Papers from the Australian EnergyScience Coaltion
* British Energy — Understanding Nuclear Energy / Nuclear Power
* Coal Combustion: Nuclear Resource or Danger? 
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* Energy Information Administration provides lots of statistics and information
* Environmental impacts of nuclear power according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ at EPA.gov
* How Nuclear Power Works
* IAEA Website The International Atomic Energy Agency
** IAEA's Power Reactor Information System (PRIS)
** IAEA's Web directory of nuclear related resources on the Internet 
* Idaho National Laboratory's Nuclear Research
** Information about all NPP in the world 
* Nuclear Power Education 
* Nuclear Tourist.com, nuclear power information
* Nuclear Waste Disposal Resources 
* The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 .
* Wilson Quarterly — Nuclear Power: Both Sides 
* Nuclear Power Related News
* Relative costs of wind, coal and nuclear power
### Tapak web berita nuklear
* An up to date selection of US and international news on nuclear issues
* ANS Nuclear Clips 
* Nuclear News
* World Nuclear News 

### Tentangan
* Why we don't need nuclear power 
* 1 million Europeans against nuclear power
* Beyond Nuclear at Nuclear Policy Research Institute advocacy organization
* Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout (CNP)
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* Critical assessment of the US-India nuclear energy accord published by the Internationalist Review*  Online book
* Greenpeace: End the nuclear age and Nuclear Reaction blog .
* Greenpeace — Calendar of Nuclear Accidents 
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* Nuclear Files
* Sierra Club 
* World Information Service on Energy (WISE)

### Sokongan
* American Nuclear Society (ANS)
* Atomic Insights
* Environmentalists for Nuclear Power
* Foratom: The European Atomic Forum
* Freedom for Fission
* Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
* Nuclear is Our Future
* Representing the People and Organisations of the Global Nuclear Profession
* SCK•CEN: Belgian Nuclear Research Centre
* The Nuclear Energy Option, online book by Bernard L. Cohen. Emphasis on risk estimates of nuclear.
* World Nuclear Association
* Nuclear Power an Alternate Energy Power Point Slides
* Pros and Cons of Nuclear Power Power Point Slides