Ties between the Japanese and the French are going to get better with time as Avera has signed a deal with a Japanese electric company that it dealing with nuclear power plants. The company has signed a deal with Hokkaido Electric Power Company which is situated in Japan and the deal is going to be involved with the French providing MOX fuel to Hokkaido so it can run it’s electric power plants on the fuel. The word MOX is actually an abbreviation of ‘Mixed Oxides’ which refers to the fuel having constituents of both Plutonium and Uranium and being somewhere in the middle of both.
The way that Plutonium and Uranium work in providing energy is that they both have heavy nucleuses of 239 and 235 respectively. Now when they forced to go through a nuclear composition of the nucleus they break up into smaller atoms of two completely different elements and this decomposition releases a lot of heat which is then used to increase the pressure of certain boilers which contain water which is turned into steam. So as the heat increases, so does the pressure of the steam and the more pressure there is in the steam the more power it can exert on the turbine to cause it to spin and therefore create electrical energy.
The MOX fuel supply contract singed between Avera and Hokkaido is one amongst the many others that the two countries have signed and it might just be the initiation of better trading ties between the two countries which I am sure have much to gain from each other.
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