Thursday, November 10, 2011

Nuclear Power Pros and Cons

Pros:
The pros of useing nuclear power are, one it doesn't depend on fossil fuels what this means is that if the word ran out of fossil fuels then nuclear power plants and anything that used nuclear power wouldn't be affected. Two nuclear power plants don"t emit as much CO2 into the atmosphere which is better for the atmoshpere.
Finnally nuclear fission produces roughly a million times more energy than coal or other fossil fuels which again is better for the world and atmosphere.

Cons:
Some of the cons of useing and haveing nuclear power are one, mining and useing uranium is not a very clean prosses. Two when you produce energy at a nuclear plant you have to use uranium and when you are done  useing it, it becomes very radio active and deadly. Finnally that radio active matirial has to be taken care of......and that cost money. It has to be taken care of because once it becomes radio active and the plant is done useing it because if they were to dump it in to any old pond or vally it would toxicate and destroy many things.

Conclusion;
In conclusion in my opinion i think that even tho nuclear power is a risky thing to deal with it would be worth it if the United States started useing it because of the fact that we wouldn"t have to depend on foreign countries and their games in which we have to buy fuel from them. So again in my opinion i think their are more pros than cons and it is worth it to start depending on nuclear power.

Kirby Winland