NUCLEAR ENERGY

Nuclear power plant :● buy uranium or plutonium =fossile energies

●produced by fusion

● non-renewable / can be stocked / 6000 Megawatts produced

it costs 16 / MWH

● used all the time

● no CO2 or fine particles

● radioactive wastes

The USA has 104 nuclear power plants :the greatest number in the

world

There's a huge concentration of nuclear plants in the Eastern States.

Palo Verde in Arizona is the biggest nuclear plant in the US.

THERMAL ENERGY : 1-COAL

●Buy coal

●non-renewable = fossil energy

●burnt to activate a turbine and generates electricity : 400 MegaWatts

it costs 400 MWH

●used all the time /can be stocked

●no radioactive emissions or wastes

●CO2 and fine particles emissions

THERMAL ENERGY : 2-OIL

Oil wells : on land or off- shore.

A pipeline

An oil-fired power plant in Grundy County, Illinois (North-East)

THERMAL ENERGY :3-NATURAL GAS

493 natural gas power plants in the US. Lake Side Power in Utah.

How do we get natural gas ?Conventional natural gas .

Shale gas : very

deep in the ground