A nuclear plant is used an industrial installation for generatingelectrical energy from nuclear energy, characterized by the use of fissile

materials in nuclear reactions provide heat. This heat is employed by a conventional thermodynamic cycle for moving a generator and produce electricity. Nuclear power plant comprising one or more reactors, which are containers (usually called vessels) within which are housed rods or other geometric configurations of minerals with a fissile element (ie, which can fission) or fertile (which can becomefossil reactions Nuclear), usually uranium and plutonium in some fuels alsogenerated from the activation of uranium. In the radioactive fission process, provides a sustainedreaction is moderated by the use of auxiliary dependent on the type of technology used. Nuclear facilities are very complex structures for a variety ofindustrial technologies employed and the high security with which endows them. Nuclear power is characterized by producing, in addition to a largeamount of electrical energy, waste to be harboring nuclear in insulated tanks and monitored for a longtime. In contrast, no produces air pollution from the combustion gases that produce the greenhouse effect, or require the use of fossil fuels for its operation. However, theemissions indirectly as a consequence of their own construction, manufacturing fuel and the subsequent management of radioactive waste are not negligible. In 1934 Frederic Joilot-Curie achieved

phosphorus-30, the first nucleus obtained by nuclear reactions caused by particle bombardment. Meanwhile Fermi tested the bombardment of uranium with neutrons, the resulting beta radiation strange confirmed 5 years later obtaining an unknown element, the first transuranic, which is called neptunium and later another called plutonium. The experiences of Fermi atoms variants also manage radioactive elements known mass value with different starting to be known as radioisotopes. Its applications in medicine and diagnostic examination will be revolutionary. Nuclear fission: a fact In 1939 the Danish physicist Niels Bohr announced to the scientific community, despite his initial reservations, a new phenomenon, the fragmentation of the nucleus of uranium. The phenomenon will be known thereafter as fission. The fission of uranium, as checks, releases about ten times more nuclear energy per core than any of the known nuclear reaction so far and also is likely to propagate through a chain reaction.

Fermi and the atomic pile In 1942 in the U.S. physicist Enrico Fermi and his collaborators built in Princeton University in Chicago, the first atomic pile, the event gives way to the

first controlled nuclear reaction in the history of humanity and serve as a model for electro-nuclear power plants inimmediately to build the first atomic bombs. First experimental atomic explosion In 1945, the July 16, secretly, in White Sands, in the state of New Mexico, USA is detonated amid great expectations the first experimental atomic bomb of 19 kilotons code-named Trinity, a step prior to the bombing of Japan in August. In 1949 in Siberia Russia makes its first nuclear test In 1952 Britain also joined as a nuclear power. France and China have access to the pump during 1960 and 1964 respectively. First commercial nuclear power In 1956, in October, Britain put into operation the first commercial nuclear power plant in the world. The plant called Calder Hall has a generating capacity of 196 megawatts and is located next to a complex of nuclear processing facilities in the vicinity of Windscale, on the Irish Sea. The complex will be known years later as Sellafield. The first reactor of a series of four even more ambitious plan will continue to operate until 2003. International Atomic Energy Agency In 1957 he established with the support of 81 nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, an initiative that history recognizes as the notice issued c

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