NATS 1760 Study Guide - Final Guide: Institute, West Virginia, Nuclear Safety And Security, Nuclear Fission
20 Jun 2013
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The conversion of mechanical to electrical energy= electric generators". Based on a fundamental law of physics: the law links electricity and magnetism, stating the electric current arises when an electrical conductor and a nearby magnet move relative to each other. The generator must be supplied with mechanical energy to keep it turning. The generator does not make energy, it only conducts it. Thermal power plants"; these are essentially huge steam engines in which a heat source boils water to make high-pressure steam. The steam spins a turbine connected to an electric generator. The notion of energy quality is the subject of the second law of thermodynamics". The second law is simple and it governs what happens in our lives. Left to themselves, things get more chaotic, not more organized. The hydrogen release at the fukushima nuclear power plant was tritium water vapor (a low-level emitter that can be absorbed in a human body through simply breathing/ drinking contaminated water)
