Nuclear energy facilities can provide the large amount of energy that desalination plants need to provide fresh drinking water. However this process requires a lot of energy. Water desalination is the process of removing salt from saltwater to make the water drinkable.
Nuclear technology can play an important role in overcoming this challenge. Technical lead radiation measurements laboratory idaho national labs. Interviews with world experts on nuclear technology.
Radioisotopes nuclear power process heat and non stationary power reactors have essential uses across multiple sectors including consumer products food and agriculture industry medicine and scientific research transport and. The applications of nuclear technology outside of civil electricity production in power plants are less well known. The agency projects its request for the portfolio will grow to 250 million in fiscal year 2025.
Reuter noted that nasa s budget request for fiscal year 2021 includes 100 million for the space nuclear technology portfolio within a new line item of which 62 million is for surface power and the remainder is for propulsion not limited to ntp. The energy released through the nuclear reaction is very high. The technology that manipulates such changes in nucleus nuclear reaction of some specific elements and transform into energy is known as nuclear technology.
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Nuclear energy is produced by a controlled nuclear chain reaction which creates heat and which is used to boil water produce steam and drive a steam turbine. Nuclear power is a type of nuclear technology involving the controlled use of nuclear fission to release energy for work including propulsion heat and the generation of electricity.
