Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100216:21:34:00
All three, either use natural gas or coal, or nuclear reactions to heat water and force it into a pressurized steam drive to drive a turbine which creates electricity. the difference is quite simply in how you heat the water. burn coal, burn natural gas, or create a nuclear reaction. in a nuclear power plant, the heat comes from a process called nuclear physicifission. the atom splits, when it splits, widen out a little bit, the reaction is heat. so in other words, the mere act of splitting the ...
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