Kuasa nuklear

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? 
 
 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)
 
 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 
 
 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

Penukaran tenaga

Stesen kuasa nuklear
Teknologi stesen kuasa
Teknologi nuklear

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