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Nuclear Power
Up one level4th generation nuclear power is capable of providing power more safely and with less costly waste processes. This technology needs to be developed along with renewable's to address power needs as they may exist in the future in the event renewable technology is not rapidly advanced.
Overview
There is about a million times more energy available in the nucleus, compared with the chemical energy of molecules exploited in fossil fuel burning. In today’s nuclear (fission) reactors neutrons cause a nucleus to fission, releasing energy as well as additional neutrons that sustain the reaction. The additional neutrons are ‘born’ with a great deal of energy and are called ‘fast’ neutrons. Further reactions are more likely if these neutrons are slowed by collisions with non-absorbing materials, thus becoming ‘thermal’ or slow neutrons.
