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Energy - põhjalik referaat energiast

As they turn, they drive generators that make electricity. Afterward, the steam is changed back into water and cooled in a separate structure at the power plant called a cooling tower. The water can be used again and again. 12.3 Types of reactors Just as there are different approaches to designing and building airplanes and automobiles, engineers have developed different types of nuclear power plants. Two types are used in the United States: boiling-water reactors (BWRs), and pressurized-water reactors (PWRs). In the BWR, the water heated by the reactor core turns directly into steam in the reactor 41 vessel and is then used to power the turbine-generator. In a PWR, the water passing through the reactor core is kept under pressure so that it does not turn to steam at all ­ it remains liquid. Steam to drive the turbine is generated in a separate piece of equipment called a steam generator