Solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, solar heat, fission & hydrogen have roles to play in the energy mix of the future. The priority, however, is to prepare for the electrification of everything ...

Today’s light-water fission reactors — reactors that use normal water as opposed to water enriched with a hydrogen isotope — are an example of this.

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The Chernobyl accident then occurred in 1986 in a different reactor type. It used graphite as a neutron moderator and the fuel elements were in pressurized channels, cooled by water.

This energy is passed on to other components in the nuclear reactor, which can then be used to heat water to drive the turbines that turn the generators to generate electricity. Image caption, 8.