Power Plant Engineering

320 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING 10.8 Energy From Fission and Fuel Burn Up There are many fission reactions that release different en ...

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 321 Most of the naturally occurring isotopes are stable. Those that are not stable, i.e., radioactive, are s ...

322 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING 10.10 Nuclear Reactor 10.10.1 Parts of a Nuclear Reactor A nuclear reactor is an apparatus in which ...

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 323 Pu^239 and U^233 so produced can be fissioned by thermal neutrons. Nuclear fuel should not be expensive ...

324 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING 10.10.3 Moderator In the chain reaction the neutrons produced are fast moving neutrons. These fast m ...

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 325 Table 10.5 Physical constant D 2 OH 2 O Density at 293 K 1.1 gm/cm^3 0.9982 gm/cm^3 Freezing temperature ...

326 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING 10.10.7 BIOLOGICAL SHIELDING Shielding the radioactive zones in the reactor roan possible radiation ...

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 327 10.11 Conservation Ratio It is defined as the ratio of number of secondary fuel atoms to the number of c ...

328 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING Item Approximate Cost % (a) Capital cost of land, building and 62% equipment etc. (b) Fuel cost 22% ...

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 329 each and provision has been made to expand its capacity of 500 mW. It is expected to be completed by 199 ...

330 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING Narora Atomic Power Plant (NAPP) is pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) that has been provided wi ...

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 331 Narora Atomic Power Plant is the fourth atomic power plant to be commissioned in India. This power plant ...

332 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING reactors it is to be enriched to about 3%, U^235 and for this uranium enrichment plant is needed whi ...

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 333 for a 100 mW coal burning power plant the corresponding value are 2700 tonnes, 1250 tonnes, 300 tonnes a ...

334 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING 10.18 COMPARISON OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT AND STEAM POWER PLANT The cost of electricity generation is ...

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 335 Thermal diffusion method. In this method (Fig. 10.9) a column consisting of two concentric pipes is use ...

336 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING Ion source Accelerating H.V. Power electrodes supply Magnetic field region Collectors U^235 U^235 Fi ...

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 337 fuel produced in fertile material per atom of fuel burnt. The conversion ratio varies with the reactor d ...

338 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING In our country right from the beginning of nuclear power programme envisaged by our great pioneer Ho ...

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 339 The Three Mile Island accident occurred in 1979 and 1986, Chernobyl occurred essentially kill- ing the e ...