Nuclear Energy - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nuclear energynuclear energy
Energy derived from nuclear reactions used at present especially of electrical power generated in atomic reactors but encompassing also fusion energy...
Energy
Energy, means any form of energy derived from fossil fuels, nuclear substances or materials, hydro-electricity and includes electrical energy or electricity generated from renewable sources of energy or bio-mass connected to the grid. [Energy Conservation Act, 2001 (52 of 2001), s. 2(h)]it means electrical energy:(i) generated, transmitted or supplied for any purpose, or(ii) used for any purpose except the transmission of a message. [Indian Electricity Act, 1910, s. 2(g)]...
nuclear powered submarine
A submarine for which the motive power comes from the energy generated by a nuclear reactor Same as nuclear submarine...
nuclear fission
A nuclear reaction in which a heavy atomic nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy...
nuclear fusion
A type of nuclear reaction in which atomic nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy...
nuclear fusion reaction
A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy...
nuclear powered ship
A ship for which the motive power comes from the energy generated by a nuclear reactor...
nuclear reactor
Any of several devices that maintain and control a sustained nuclear fission chain reaction for the production of energy heat or artificial elements or for research purposes The main fuel sustaining the reaction and consumed by the process is typically uranium or plutonium...
Nuclear weapon
A weapon of great explosive power such as an atomic bomb or a hydrogen bomb which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy from within atomic nuclei by a nuclear reaction A fission weapon or a fusion weapon The term includes atomic shells for cannon...
nuclear winter
a hypothetical lowering of global temperature postulated as the aftermath of a full nuclear war The mechanism of such an effect depends primarily on the injection into the atmosphere of small solid particles as soot from burning forests which reflect sunlight and cause a reduction in solar energy retained by the earth...
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