TÜRKİYE’S FIRST NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Türkiye recently attended to make a nuclear power plant. This power plant is still under construction in Mersin, Akkuyu, and was made by the Russian government.
But what exactly is a nuclear power plant? A nuclear power plant is a type of energy producer that uses nuclear supplies such as uranium-235. It has a basic function. There are fuels inside of a reactor that causes a reaction. These fuels (uranium 235) cause a strike reaction(fission reaction) which is nonstop but controllable. While this chain reaction is happening it causes a very high energy which boils the water inside of the reactor. ( It may change reactor type to type but the main purpose is the same.) Boiled water becomes a gas and it turns turbines which produce electricity.
Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant’s type is 3+ reactor and it is the most developed one yet. There are four power units in the project, after commissioning all of its 4 power units Akkuyu NPP(Nuclear Power Plant) will produce 40,000 million kWh of electricity annually. Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant requires 1 ton of enriched uranium each year. In contrast, oil or coal-fired power plants require about 2 million tons of fuel per year which we can also say nuclear reactors reduce fewer fuels. ( Naturel uranium contains %99 uranium and 0.72% uranium-325. The uranium content is increased by 3 to 5% to produce nuclear fuel.) After removing radioactive fuel from the reactor, spent nuclear fuel is immersed in a special pool for cooling down. ( It reduces the amount of radioactivity to the amount a person can normally stand next to the spent fuel.) We could also reprocess used fuels.
To sum it up, the progress being made in making a nuclear power plant sounds promising for generations to come.