POWER PLANT

A nuclear power station. The nuclear reactor is contained inside the cylindrical containment buildings to the right - left is a cooling tower venting water vapor from the Non-Radioactive side of the plant.

A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors generating nuclear power.

Nuclear power plants are base load stations, which work best when the power output is constant (although boiling water reactors can come down to half power at night). Their units range in power from about 40 MWe to over 1000 MWe. New units under construction in 2005 are typically in the range 600-1200 MWe.

As of 2006 there are 442 licensed nuclear power reactors in the world [1], of which 441 are currently operational operating in 31 different countries [2]. Together they produce about 17% of the world's electric power

I don't have too many new things on my Web site besides my drawings, but my parents have lots of new stuff, including all of the pictures from our family vacation and from when Joe got the chicken pox.