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Everyone wants electricity. We use it all the time in
our homes, schools, hospitals and workplaces. But how
many people think about how electricity is made?
One
way electricity is created is through nuclear power,
which harnesses the energy released from splitting atoms,
usually of uranium. The large amounts of heat released
in nuclear reactions are used to create steam that drives
the turbines to generate power. The world's first nuclear
power station was opened in the UK in 1956 at Calder
Hall in Cumbria, and there are now several hundred reactors
in operation around the world.
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