核电站就是原子能发电站,它是利用放射性物质铀、钍等稀有金属在裂变时产生的巨大能量来发电的。科学家们通过测算,1千克铀释放出来的能量相当于3000吨标准煤完全燃烧后所产生的能量。一个100万千瓦的核电站,每年只要消耗30吨的核燃料棒,而相同发电能力的火力发电站就要消耗250 A nuclear power plant is an atomic power station. It uses the enormous energy generated by the radioactive materials such as uranium, thorium and other rare metals to generate electricity during fission. The scientists calculated that the energy released by 1 kilogram of uranium is equivalent to the energy generated after the complete combustion of 3,000 tons of standard coal. A nuclear power plant of 1 million kilowatts consumes 30 tons of nuclear fuel rods each year, while a thermal power plant with the same power generation capacity consumes 250