Advantages Disadvantages of Nuclear Energy
.,Advantages & Disadvantages of Nuclear Energy
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Advantages & Disadvantages
of Nuclear Energy
By: Celina Treviho (M) & Omar Alatorre(M)
ADVANTAGES:
Nuclear energy tackles 3 of the greatest problems humanity has
encountered in its struggle to get energy.
a)Nuclear power plants don't require a lot of space.
b)lt doesn't pollute (it does, but in a very different way... more
about it further on.)
c)Nuclear energy is by far the most concentrated form of
energy.
DISADVANTAGES:
- One of the main disadvantages of nuclear energy is that nuclear
explosions produce radiation, this radiation harms the cells of the body
which can make humans sick or even cause them death. Illness can
appear or strike people years after they were exposed to nuclear
radiation.
- A possible type of reactor disaster is known as a meltdown. In a
meltdown, the fission reaction of an atom goes out of control, which
leads to a nuclear explosion releasing great amounts of radiation.
Here are some examples of meltdowns that have happened through
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history::
* In 1979, at the Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the
cooling system of a nuclear reactor failed. Radiation escaped, forcing
tens of thousands of people to run away. Fortunately the problem was
solved minutes before a total meltdown would have occurred, and
there were no deaths.
- In 1986, a much worse disaster hit Russia's Chernobyl nuclear power
plant. In this incident, a large amount of radiation escaped from the
reactor. Hundreds of thousands of people were exposed to the
radiation. Several dozen died within a few days. In the upcoming
years, thousands more may die of cancers induced by the radiation.
* Reactors produce nuclear waste products which emit dangerous
radiation, because they could kill people who touch them, they cannot
be thrown away like ordinary garbage. Nowadays, lots of nuclear
wastes are stored in special cooling pools at the nuclear plants.
- The USA plans to move all its nuclear was to an isolated
underground dump by the year 2010.
- In 1957,nuclear wastes buried at a dump site in Russia's Ural
Mountains, near Moscow, mysteriously exploded. This caused the
death of dozens of people
- Another disadvantage is that nuclear reactors only last for about forty
to fifty years.
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