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From the Ted Talk by Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors

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Let's talk a little bit about how nuclear fission wkros. In a nuclear power plant, you have a big pot of water that's under high pressure, and you have some fuel rods, and these fuel rods are encased in zirconium, and they're little pleltes of uranium diixdoe fuel, and a fsiiosn roaietcn is controlled and maintained at a proper level, and that reaction heats up water, the wtear truns to saetm, steam turns the turbine, and you produce electricity from it. This is the same way we've been producing electricity, the steam turbine idea, for 100 years, and nuclear was a really big adnvnemceat in a way to heat the water, but you still boil water and that turns to steam and turns the turbine.

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Let's talk a little bit about how nuclear fission _____. In a nuclear power plant, you have a big pot of water that's under high pressure, and you have some fuel rods, and these fuel rods are encased in zirconium, and they're little _______ of uranium _______ fuel, and a _______ ________ is controlled and maintained at a proper level, and that reaction heats up water, the _____ _____ to _____, steam turns the turbine, and you produce electricity from it. This is the same way we've been producing electricity, the steam turbine idea, for 100 years, and nuclear was a really big ___________ in a way to heat the water, but you still boil water and that turns to steam and turns the turbine.

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  2. pellets
  3. advancement
  4. fission
  5. turns
  6. water
  7. steam
  8. works
  9. reaction

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Let's talk a little bit about how nuclear fission works. In a nuclear power plant, you have a big pot of water that's under high pressure, and you have some fuel rods, and these fuel rods are encased in zirconium, and they're little pellets of uranium dioxide fuel, and a fission reaction is controlled and maintained at a proper level, and that reaction heats up water, the water turns to steam, steam turns the turbine, and you produce electricity from it. This is the same way we've been producing electricity, the steam turbine idea, for 100 years, and nuclear was a really big advancement in a way to heat the water, but you still boil water and that turns to steam and turns the turbine.

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