Q49 of 269 Page 159

A nuclear reactor has half the length of all its control rods inserted in graphite. What must be done so that the reactor produces more heat? Explain your answer.

If such circumstances happens then we would withdraw the control rods a little more from inside the reactor. Doing this will increase the rate of nuclear fission process and hence would produce more heat .


More from this chapter

All 269 →
48

The mass numbers of four elements A, B, C and Dare 2, 20, 135 and 235, respectively. Which one of them will be most suitable to make:

(i) an atom bomb, and


(ii) a hydrogen bomb?

 49

A nuclear power plant is working normally. What would you do it the reactor core suddenly got too hot?

 50

Explain why, in a nuclear reactor, the chain reaction stops if the control rods are fully inserted into the graphite.

 1

Which of the two is a cleaner fuel: hydrogen or CNG? Why?