A country needs to build new power stations to provide electricity for its national grid.
One type of power station under consideration is a nuclear power station.
Describe how the energy stored in nuclear fuel (such as uranium) is used in a nuclear power station to generate electrical energy.
Many engineers advocate for nuclear power because it is highly efficient. Explain the meaning of efficient in terms of energy transfers.
Apart from cost and efficiency, list two other reasons against building a nuclear power station.
533 exam-style questions on CIE IGCSE Physics 1.7 Energy, work and power, covering 1.7.1a Energy stores and energy transfers, 1.7.1b Conservation of energy, 1.7.1c Kinetic and gravitational potential energy, 1.7.2 Work done, 1.7.3 Energy resources, 1.7.3a Energy resources and electricity generation, 1.7.3b Nuclear fusion as an energy source, 1.7.3c Efficiency of energy transfer, and 1.7.4 Power. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.