The purpose of generating steam within a nuclear power plant reactor core is, like other energy producing systems, to

a. generate heat to heat buildings
b. turn a turbine which generates electricity
c. use the radioactivity to drive industrial processes
d. create light that is transferred to factories and local industries
e. Turbines are not part of nuclear reactor cores


B

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