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You know the difference?
Alright, the main difference between both of them is the rate of energy it released.
In a nuclear reactor, energy is released at a controllable rate.
While in a nuclear weapon, energy is released at a very high and uncontrollable rate.
Or in other words, in a nuclear reactor, the nuclear chain reaction is kept at a level to be just barely self-sustaining. In a bomb, the chain reaction accelerates rapidly until the energy produces causes the assembly to fly apart.
Do you know?
Today, as the main nuclear arsenals are being dismantled and a comprehensive test ban treaty is in sight, commercial nuclear power provides 14 percent of the world's electricity. Several factors suggest that nuclear power has a much larger role to play in supplying the world's future energy needs.
Do you know?
Today, as the main nuclear arsenals are being dismantled and a comprehensive test ban treaty is in sight, commercial nuclear power provides 14 percent of the world's electricity. Several factors suggest that nuclear power has a much larger role to play in supplying the world's future energy needs.
References:-
- http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2001-05/988836248.Ph.r.html
- http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf52.html
- http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy99/phy99554.htm
