Nuclear+Power

Hi, My Name is Ludwig  And my topic is: The problems of Nuclear Power

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Environmental stewardship means to help take care of nature and its surroundings. When you go into the forest and throw a Coca Cola can onto the forest floor, you are not caring for the environment. Not only a can but any trash hurts the forest or ecosystem. An example of Environmental Stewardship is nuclear power because it can be an advantage or an disadvantage for the environment. One advantage of nuclear power is it does not emit Co2 into the atmosphere. One disadvantage is that the nuclear reactors have radioactivity that can kill people, make them sick and damage nature. Although nuclear power is dangerous, people still use it because it has many more advantages than disadvantages!   This is my first question:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using nuclear power? There are many advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power.

Advantages:
 * Nuclear power does not emit Co2 into the atmosphere because the steam that comes out is water vapor and not smoke or something like oil getting burned.
 * The operating cost is lower than other energy sources because there is more uranium than fossil fuels and oil.
 * Nuclear power has developed, technology to build up on other energy sources and has gotten cleaner and it got safer by building containment building.

Large power generating: The USA produces 100,747 MW France produces 63,130 MW Japan produces 46,823 MW The Russian Federation produces 22,693 MW Germany produces 20,490 MW
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People can get more uranium than fossil fuels. Uranium is the fuel for nuclear energy, and fossil fuels are the main source of oil. In 2009 machines got <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__5,404,000__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tons uranium out of the earth <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The most uranium is found in Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada and Russia.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Disadvantages:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The construction time is 4-5 years long
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nuclear power plants are Targets for terrorism.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> On Wednesday October 17, 2001, 3 F-16 jet planes orbited the nuclear power plant Three Mile Island because they thought of a credible threat by land or air.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Radioactive Waste lasts 200-500 years

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are ways to make nuclear power plants safer in the future? People are making nuclear power plants safer in the future.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Build an underground nuclear power plant, it would work <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">using self-regulating heat-pipe controlled reactors.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using Thorium <span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it is a silvery metal <span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">close to uranium with a few more protons than uranium, it has 90 protons and 90 electrons. The atomic radium of thorium is 179 pm.
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