Nuclear Energy: Don’t be a Fossil Fool

For decades, the world has tried to decide whether to use nuclear power. From 1985, as long as the US Cold War was concerned about strengthening the applicability of nuclear technology until 2011, when the Japanese Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident caused a lot of anti-nuclear emotions, the focus never turns into a potential advantage of nuclear power It was not placed. In these views, nuclear power generation includes the idea of ​​bringing multiple threats to humans and the environment, including the effects of uranium mining, processing and transportation, the spreading or destruction of nuclear weapons, and the effects of radioactive nuclear waste.

(Nuclear Power and Fossil Fuel) Nuclear power can generate a lot of energy by using a small amount of uranium. The population of the world is increasing. Demand for energy is increasing, so nuclear energy can satisfy it. Since nuclear power is very efficient, it can supply a large amount of energy in a short period of time. Unlike fossil fuel combustion, nuclear power uses atoms to generate energy. Nuclear power is clean because it does not generate harmful gas or carbon dioxide. In the article nuclear power ratio. Fossil fuel, Debashree Sen said nuclear fission produces energy without releasing greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. As everyone knows, burning fossil fuels generates a large amount of carbon dioxide, so we make carbon dioxide every day. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "90% of carbon emissions from power generation in the United States comes from coal-fired power plants." Clearly, combustion of fossil fuels led to climate change.

The use of nuclear power has two advantages over fossil fuel power plants. (1) Nuclear reactors use less fuel than fossil fuel power plants to produce the same amount of energy as fossil fuel power plants. Nuclear fission of 1 metric tons of uranium fuel provides the same thermal energy as burning 3 million metric tons of coal and 12 million barrels of oil. (2) Unlike fossil fuels, uranium does not produce chemicals or solid contaminants that are released into the atmosphere. (World Book Encyclopedia, 1996)