Nuclear energy is safe?

This article is about depending on nuclear power and the dangers that goes with production and distribution of the energy.

The accident at an earthquake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant in March made many countries review their plans to build and operate nuclear plants.The people are asking the authorities to reconsider the ethics in having nuclear plants. They are also clamouring to review the present safety measures especially if the plants are old.

Nuclear plants cost a fortune to build, but not much to run. So despite a steep tax on nuclear fuel, they are a cheap and reliable source of power that emits almost no greenhouse gases.

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Chernobyl nuclear powerstation disaster 1986

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Nuclear energy and nuclear power-stations became popular in the 1970s.
In 1986, a power-station in Soviet Russia at a place called Chernobyl was once of the 10 worst ecological disasters that change the world.

A colourless, odourless and highly radioactive gas and dust was produced at the nuclear power-station station which rose high up into the air and within 1 month, one-third of the people who worked and lived in the vicinity had died of radiation sickness.

Radioactive particles in the air will get distributed far and wide by the wind and will finally settle down when the rain washes the air. Once on the ground, it will be absorbed by the plants and it will pass through the food chain. It will end up in vegetables, fruits, milk and meat.

Radioactive iodine is particularly harmful as it gets concentrated very quickly in the thyroid glands. These glands are very active in babies and children as the hormone, thyroxine controls metabolic rates and growth. Thyroid cancer will cause death in children exposed to radioactive iodine.

Even up to now, 25 years later, the place is still out of bounds and uninhabitable.

Richard Sears on Planning for the end of oil

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Would we stop using oil because we run out of oil? No says Richard Sears. We stopped using stones for making tools because of new ideas and innovations. In the same way....



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Are you pro nuclear energy?

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Are you against nuclear energy?

We need electricity. Clean energy is what we want. Energy from burning coal produces carbon dioxide. Energy from nuclear sources produces nuclear wastes which emit lethal radiations for tens of hundreds of years. It has to stored safely, usually buried underground.

Listen to this debate and make up your own mind.




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