It's Time to Expand Nuclear Power
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How Nuclear Power Is Generating Heat
So i bet most people here know that we have discovered electrons, protons and neutrons. And so there's certain elements that are created in essentially exploding stars that contain energy, primordial energy in them,. And you've heard of uranium, you might have of neptunium. Anyway, uranium decays, some of the neutrons go flying out of it. And if you can get the neutrons to run into each other, it generates heat. We take the heat and we boil water or some coolint and run a turban, which turns an electric generator and we get electricity. So this is called fishion. It's a process different from what happens inside
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