Why Nuclear Power Can not Be Regarded as a Very good Option Energy Resource

There’s a lot of talk these days about nuclear energy. The subject has been discussed ad nauseam. So what’s the truth? Is nuclear energy the magic formula that will save the world, or is it the evil energy that will destroy it?

Nuclear energy definitely has at least one very appealing feature: it isn’t fossil fuel. It doesn’t have to be pumped out of the ground. On the other hand, the source of nuclear power is uranium, and uranium is not a renewable power source. The largest known deposits are in Australia. It’s quickly mined and quickly shipped to nuclear reactor websites about the world.

The two processes in producing nuclear power are fission and fusion. Fission creates much more than 10 million times the power that is created in the burning of fossil fuels. That is the good part. Fusion, on the other hand (which is the procedure of joining nuclei), has not yet been safely controlled. Fusion occurs naturally in stars and the sun and in nuclear reactors built by man. And then there’s the issue of what to do with all of that radioactive waste that is produced when nuclear energy is generated. Nobody desires the stuff. The old “not in my backyard” sentiment prevails. And nobody really should want it. It’s dangerous and deadly. Radiation accidents are 1 of the major concerns of producing energy in nuclear reactors.

The words “Chernobyl disaster” come to mind. The nuclear reactor plant near Pripyat in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic exploded on April 26, 1986 -23 YEARS ago – and the place is nonetheless a wasteland. We’re told that “only” 30 people died in the initial explosion, but the number of deaths from cancer brought on by the release of the radiation is much more likely in the thousands.

So you can draw your own conclusions. There are both benefits and disadvantages to nuclear power.

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