Whois & Analysis for nuclear-power.net

Nuclear technology is technology that involves the reactions of atomic nuclei.

Among the notable nuclear technologies are nuclear reactors, nuclear medicine and nuclear weapons.

It is also used, among other things, in smoke detectors and gun sights.

A nuclear power plant or nuclear power station is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.

As is typical in all conventional thermal power stations the heat is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine connected to an electric generator which produces electricity., the IAEA report there are 449 nuclear power reactors in operation operating in 31 countries.

Nuclear power stations are usually considered to be base load stations, since fuel is a small part of the cost of production.

Their operations and maintenance (O&M) and fuel costs are, along with hydropower stations, at the low end of the spectrum and make them suitable as base-load power suppliers.

The cost of spent fuel management, however, is somewhat uncertain.

A knowledge base (KB) is a technology used to store complex structured and unstructured information used by a computer system.

The initial use of the term was in connection with expert systems which were the first knowledge-based systems.