Nuclear engineering
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nuclear-engineering-165-3596259
title:
Nuclear engineering
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Nuclear engineering is the engineering discipline concerned with designing and applying systems that utilize the energy released by nuclear processes.
The most prominent application of nuclear engineering is the generation of electricity. Worldwide, some 440 nuclear reactors in 32 countries generate 10 percent of the world's energy through nuclear fission. In the future, it is expected that nuclear fusion will add another nuclear means of generating energy. Both reactions make use of the nuclear
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Applied science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_engineering
date created:
2002-02-01T12:24:24Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T06:35:40Z
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