It’s just like a mule. A mule is a docile, patient beast, and he will give you power to pull a plow for decades, but he wants to kill you. He waits for years and years for that rare, opportune moment when he can turn your lights out with a simple kick to the head.
-Jerry Poole, referring to a nuclear power reactor
Courtesy: Wikipedia
Nuclear power generation is the way of producing electricity using the phenomena of controlled nuclear fission. A nuclear power plant (NPP), a device used for this purpose, extracts heat given by nuclear fission and coverts this heat energy to electrical energy. Although a NPP has some advantages such as 