Question

How is water inside the reactor vessel heated in a nuclear power plant?
Group of answer choices

Nuclear fission

Nuclear fusion

Control rods

Answer 1

Answer:

1) The water in the core is heated by nuclear fission and then pumped into tubes inside a heat exchanger. Those tubes heat a separate water source to create steam. The steam then turns an electric generator to produce electricity. The core water cycles back to the reactor to be reheated and the process is repeated.

Nuclear fission