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Nuclear Power Plants and the Sun
I need some help again...
1. What are the fuel sources?
2. How is the fuel used to produce/release energy?
3. What are the similarities in the way they produce energy?
4. Are there any health hazards associated with the way they produce energy?
5. Why is energy released when the nuclear reactions take place? Talk about this using your research on the forces that hold the nucleus of an atom together.
Those are the questions in the chart. The two things being compared are "Nuclear Power Plant (Not Fossil Fueled)" and "the Sun".
I have the first two answered... 1. (Nuclear) A nuclear power plant’s fuel source is Uranium. (Sun) The Sun’s fuel sources are hydrogen and helium. 2. (Nuclear) Energy is produced/released through fission. (Sun) Energy is produced/released through fusion.
If any of that is wrong, let me know.
Anyways, the teacher gave us seven different links to use and that's too much for me to handle. Why he can't give us a few links is beyond me but looking at seven different links only to find that at least four of them confuse you is really very irritating (Some make me feel like I'm jumping into the middle of something after having missed the beginning). I'd appreciate it if someone could give me a link or a few links to sites that would answer my questions but explain everything in my language...in other words, this is my weak subject, please don't explain something to me using words and phrases I may mistake for Russian.
I'd take either a link or an explanation from a person, either way, I can't hack going through pages and pages of unrelated information.
EDIT: Tell me, does http://www.astro.uva.nl/demo/od95/" particular link have anything to do with my worksheet because I got to where they were talking about solar winds or whatever and realized I still didn't have any actual answers.
I need some help again...
1. What are the fuel sources?
2. How is the fuel used to produce/release energy?
3. What are the similarities in the way they produce energy?
4. Are there any health hazards associated with the way they produce energy?
5. Why is energy released when the nuclear reactions take place? Talk about this using your research on the forces that hold the nucleus of an atom together.
Those are the questions in the chart. The two things being compared are "Nuclear Power Plant (Not Fossil Fueled)" and "the Sun".
I have the first two answered... 1. (Nuclear) A nuclear power plant’s fuel source is Uranium. (Sun) The Sun’s fuel sources are hydrogen and helium. 2. (Nuclear) Energy is produced/released through fission. (Sun) Energy is produced/released through fusion.
If any of that is wrong, let me know.
Anyways, the teacher gave us seven different links to use and that's too much for me to handle. Why he can't give us a few links is beyond me but looking at seven different links only to find that at least four of them confuse you is really very irritating (Some make me feel like I'm jumping into the middle of something after having missed the beginning). I'd appreciate it if someone could give me a link or a few links to sites that would answer my questions but explain everything in my language...in other words, this is my weak subject, please don't explain something to me using words and phrases I may mistake for Russian.
I'd take either a link or an explanation from a person, either way, I can't hack going through pages and pages of unrelated information.
EDIT: Tell me, does http://www.astro.uva.nl/demo/od95/" particular link have anything to do with my worksheet because I got to where they were talking about solar winds or whatever and realized I still didn't have any actual answers.
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