


Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced by nuclear fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear power plants.

Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. The station produces a yearly average of 25 million kilowatt-hours per day, sufficient to power a city the size of Boston. The boiling water reactor (BWR), located inside the dome capped cylindrical structure, is dwarfed in size by its cooling tower. The 1200 MWe Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland.
