Diffusion

Difference between coated and uncoated cutting tools
Machining

Machining

Cutting tool is a part and parcel in every conventional machining process. Tool material and geometry are two active parameters that influence process capability and machinability. For uninterrupted material removal, the tool material should be harder than the workpiece material. In addition to the hardness, tool material should ideally possess certain common properties, such as high strength, high toughness, high fatigue strength, shape retention capability at high temperature, high thermal

Differences between pressurized water reactor and boiling water reactor
Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear reactor is one integrated part of every nuclear fission power plant where nuclear fuel is made to undergo nuclear fission reaction and the same is allowed to continue in a controlled chain reaction. Thermal energy (heat) derived from the exothermic nuclear fission is transferred to the coolant within this reactor. This coolant, in turn, drives the steam turbine (either directly or indirectly). Bases on the type of neutron used

Difference Between PWR and PHWR - Pressurized Water Reactor & Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor
Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Power Plant

In the nuclear power plant, the thermal energy generated by nuclear reaction (fission or fusion) is indirectly used to rotate the steam turbine to generate electricity. Nuclear fission power plants gained popularity owing to the easiness of initiating and controlling the fission reaction as compared to that of fusion. In fission power plants, nuclear fuel (mostly uranium fuel) is made to undergo fission reaction by bombarding it with high velocity

Differences between gaseous diffusion and gas centrifuge techniques for uranium enrichment
Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Power Plant

Naturally available uranium consists of mainly uranium-238 isotope (about 99.3% of the natural uranium is U-238 isotope, 0.7% is U-235 isotope and trace amount of U-234). Among the three naturally available isotopes of uranium, only U-235 is fissile material and can sustain chain reaction as it offers higher cross-section towards thermal neutron. So only U-235 can be used as fuel in nuclear reactors, but its availability in the natural uranium