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Nuclear Power, Another Source OF Energy

Nuclear energy to some people, has a history of accidents, but to the rest of the people who don’t see it as a bunch of nuclear meltdowns and etc... its much more than just a long history of accidents. Nuclear diving is like mud diving, only your diving in contaminated waters filled with radioactivity from nuclear power. In 2004, a diver off the coast of South Carolina. the people who were diving were actually ex-military people. The people would dive deep in order to get the nuclear power thats in the Nuclear power plants that have been harvested from some kind of plant which alows them to use the atoms from that plant and use it as energy.

In Japan, a nuclear power plant had a crack in the reactor, which caused it to leak radiation out, which then they had to shut the reactor and the rest of the plant down so the leak could be repaired. The cost of the repair for the reactor was 125 yens in Japan. Then the year after that the nuclear meltdown on three mile island, though didn’t kill anyone it wasn’t the worst one in nuclear power history. Next, a triple meltdown in Fukushima Dai-ichi, Japan over a year ago was the worst in nuclear power history. And 200 megawatts of nuclear power = to about 450 megawatts of using wind energy, also nuclear power was/is cheaper and easier to use than wind energy. Today’s reactors can live to about a 40 year life span, than those in late 80’s, early 90’s. plus some people are still trying to get it to live 60 or 80 years. during the mid-90’s early 20th century, splitting atoms was a huge experience for the changing world, then using them as an energy resource was an epic discovery.

Then in 2010, the United States produced about 15% of the worlds nuclear energy, including Iraq, Japan, and China. Also in 1996 the U.S was supplying 18% of the worlds nuclear power, they’ve gone down 3% in the past 14 years thats a small amount to pay after the nuclear meltdown on Three Mile Island. They hope/predict that the plants should have a capacity to increase 7% between now and 2035. Although many people don’t like to use nuclear energy, its still being used all around the world and in some parts of the U.S. nuclear power plants produce almost 90% of the worlds nuclear energy, now wind power only produces about 10% of the worlds energy. Thats because only in some parts of the world does wind blows all the time. the wind turbines of the windmills could cost up 3 million dollars.

Also the 54 reactors through out the U.S, only have a combined capacity of 47.5 gigawatt, (and a gigawatt is the same as a thousand megawatts) that can power almost all of New York City. but only 27 of the reactors are still up and running. then the triple meltdown on March 11, 2011, caused by an earthquake and the tsunami in japan, the reactors that are close to there are either close or at the risk of a similar disaster, they have been issued to shut down until the changes are made. Since then, the Fukushima accident, the rest of the reactors have been shut down for a the Stress Test, they haven't been cleared to have the reactors start up again in japan. they hope that the nuclear reactors will be ready to start up by June 17, 2013.

So do we need to build nuclear power plants? that is up to you no one can change the way you think, but before you answer here is why we think we don’t need we don't nuclear power plants. Because all the construction cost the fowling and its going to take time, the last one the U.S built it took about 23 years to complete. During that time, the wind farms have produced over 49.5 kilowatts of power it there were no meltdowns and it was/is envier mentally safe and efficient. While others are not as what they seem to be, they may say its clean but what the public knows little about is that the nuclear power plants use uranium in which is not a renewable resource. They also release carbon dioxide also known as CO2. Finally they are part of the reason why global warming is happening in the North and South poles causing the oceans to rise. The nuclear power plants store about 10% of the worlds widely use of nuclear power including China, Japan, and other parts of the world. Nuclear energy is atoms that have been pulled apart in order to create energy that most people use.