Nuclear Power
Entering the twenty-first century, six billion people inhabit the earth. A number that is expected to double in a hundred and twenty years, yet only 4% of that world population lives in the Untied States. Even though the Untied States is only 4% of the population of the world, it still uses 25% of the world's resources. This statistic is most important with the argument of food consumption, with so many countries starving, but it also means that the United States uses 25% of the world's energy resources. Coal and oil are a major energy provider around the world, particularly in the US. (See figure 1) Many countries without these abundances have turned to nuclear energy, due to its supreme effectiveness. Nuclear energy produces more energy per unit weight than coal and oil, releases no pollutants into the atmosphere and is less cancer causing than the burning of coal and oil. Yet nuclear power has been attacked in the US since the day that it was instituted as being a non-safe and environmentally non-friendly form of energy. Right now the United States does not have to worry about running out of fossil fuels for a long time, even though they generate 51.7% of the US's power, and
Even when the plant on Three Mile Island had a disaster in 1979, (the worst is US history) the average person that resided in that area received 2 to 10 millarems. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Another major concern for the environment is what to do with the waste of a nuclear plant. This would also mean that nuclear power is not the cancer causing threat that the majority of the population thinks that it is. As a result, the nuclear energy industry is the only industry established since the industrial revolution that has managed and accounted for all of its waste, preventing adverse impacts on the environment. When all the waste is accounted for, which it has been since the moment of institution, the nuclear industry lets no pollutants into the earth. Animals live in a symbiotic relationship with the planet. And the fact still remains that I gram plutonium has the same energy potential as 1 ton of oil. Nuclear energy is safe, clean, and effective. In some countries, such as France, the waste from the nuclear plants is recycled making a lower amount of unusable waste. It is in this area that causes people feel that nuclear power is unsafe for the environment.
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