GEV 1051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Power Cable, Cooking Oil, Nimby
19 Mar 2017
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Most nrg measured in megawatt hours: ex: cool fridge for 3 months, charge 5556 iphones: 2015: 797,177,533 megawatt hours generated by nuclear power (lot) thousands of homes powered. Fission, within fission, neutrons shot @ uranium 235, 238, generates power: uranium isotope. 235 split 3% enrichment; the whole purpose is to generate heat: steam electricity. Japan disaster: loss of power as result of earthquake (offshore) from tsunami (caused power loss: also due to human error, no more nrg into whole system, no coolant, explosions continue, accumulate in massive explosion. Co2 emissions (not from mining, enrichment or reprocessing) Sox emissions (just from plant, not from mining) 12,000 acre (greater expanse of land required for production) 300,000** tons (remember that you can remove some in coal) 1 curie more solid waste for coal 60,000 tons**(lots of ash left over) Fi(cid:396)es to death, lo(cid:272)alized (cid:894)does(cid:374)(cid:859)t really happen today) Minor to widespread (cid:894)che(cid:396)(cid:374)o(cid:271)(cid:455)l o(cid:374)l(cid:455) hea(cid:396) a(cid:271)out it if it becomes widespread)
