PHYSICAL SCIENCE : What are the advantages and disadvantages of using nuclear energy to generate electricity?

1 answer:

4 0

Nuclear energy is EXTREMELY ecofriendly, punching down any fossil fuels and even wind energy. It also is reliable, and has low emissions. However, nuclear energy is somewhat expensive and can go wrong, being dangerous to the environment and people. Along with this, uranium is finite and radioactive waste disposal is really bad.

You might be interested in

What is time and speed and acceleration

Andre45 [30]

Answer:

Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity with time.Acceleration occurs anytime an object's speed increases or decreases, or it changes direction. Much like velocity, there are two kinds of acceleration: average and instantaneous. Average acceleration is determined over a "long" time interval.

Explanation:

good luck

7 0

3 years ago

Determine the gravitational field 300km above the surface of the earth. How does this compare to the field on the earth's surfac

Serjik [45]

The strength of the gravitational field is given by:
$g= \frac{GM}{r^2}$
where
G is the gravitational constant
M is the Earth's mass
r is the distance measured from the centre of the planet.

In our problem, we are located at 300 km above the surface. Since the Earth radius is R=6370 km, the distance from the Earth's center is:
$r=R+h=6370 km+300 km=6670 km= 6.67 \cdot 10^{6} m$

And now we can use the previous equation to calculate the field strength at that altitude:
$g= \frac{GM}{r^2}= \frac{(6.67 \cdot 10^{-11} m^3 kg^{-1} s^{-2})(5.97 \cdot 10^{24} kg)}{(6.67 \cdot 10^6 m)^2} = 8.95 m/s^2$

And we can see this value is a bit less than the gravitational strength at the surface, which is $g_s = 9.81 m/s^2$ .