Question by : How does a nuclear power plant trace its energy all the way back to the sun?
I am looking for something like a simple diagram or something that shows the sun and how it turns into nuclear energy.
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Answer by Edward
first of all, nuclear energy is created through nuclear fission aka the splitting of atoms. the atoms had to have come from the sun (or by small chance a meteorite).
the sun is capable of nuclear fission which is how we get more complex elements from the sun.
this is a very basic explanation of how our nuclear energy comes from the sun. it’s not prehistoric algae or ferns which give us Uranium 238
EDIT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium
read the part under occurrence. mostly for Bobby’s education :)
And i should clarify that we do not get Uranium from *our* sun. but it came from the supernovas of some suns billions of years ago. :)
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