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1 Nuclear Power: Basics An Alternative to Coal?

2 Nuclear Science

3 The Nucleus

4 Isotopes

5 Radioactivity

6 Carbon-14 Decay

7 Half-life Carbon-14  Nitrogen-14 + beta particle

8 C-14 Dating

9 Fission

10 Chain Reaction

11 Fission releases energy

12 Fission also Creates Dangerous New Materials

13 Nuclear Engineering A control room of the third unit of the nuclear power plant in Kozloduy, Bulgaria, is seen on this undated photo from June 2003. (AP Photo/Dimitar Deinov)

14 Nuclear Power

15 Nuclear Reactors: Boiling Water Reactor (BWR)

16 Nuclear Reactor Vessel

17 Nuclear Fuel Assembly

18 Nuclear Reactors: Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)

19 Nuclear Power Plant Efficiency

20 Nuclear Power in the US

21 Millstone Power Station

22 Nuclear Fuel

23 Uranium Mining

24 Uranium Isotopes

25 Enrichment: Gaseous Diffusion US NRC

26 Enrichment: Gas Centrifuge US NRC

27 Nuclear Waste & Nuclear Accidents Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is pictured in Jan. 21, 1996. This is the site of the 1979 partial core melt. (AP Photo/Tim Shaffer, files)

28 Accidents: Chernobyl

29 Waste: Storage Pools The spent fuel rod pool inside the Clinton Nuclear Power Plant in Clinton, Ill., is shown on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1996. The water in the pool acts as a shield against radiation from the used uranium rods. The reactor was shut down due to an equipment malfunction Sept. 5, 1996. (AP Photo/Mark Cowan)

30 Waste: Dry Cask Storage In this photo released by Holtec International, dry cask storage units are seen at the James A. Fitzpatrick nuclear power plant in Scriba, N.Y., in this undated photo. The Vermont Public Service Board approved "dry cask storage," of spent nuclear fuel at Vermont Yankee, lifting the threat that running out of room in its existing spent fuel storage pool would cause the plant to close by 2008.(AP Photo/Holtec International)

31 Waste: Long-Term Storage NRC

32 Nuclear Future?

33 US Nuclear Renaissance Photo from a NRG brochure shows the South Texas Project near Houston.

34 Nuclear in China Map from Areva brochure.

35 Nuclear Economics NRC

36 Nuclear Waste & Safety NRC


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