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Viktor Reznikov
24/11/15
Mr Faulkner
Physics - Nuclear energy

Nuclear energy?
Many people in the world think that Nuclear energy is the most dangerous and dirty
source of energy on our planet
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People are just intimidated by such disasters like
Chernobyl or Fukushima, which makes this a real dilemma for the nuclear future
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People left their dwellings and didn't have a chance to
return due to the high levels of radiation
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Now, to show how much energy can a nuclear power plant produce, scientists set up an
investigation
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Impressive isn't it? Wherein the reactor in a nuclear power plant has
an obvious structure
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There are two main
types of reactors: the Brewer reactor where splitting of plutonium taking place and can recycle it
over and over again, so it produces no waste at all
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This kind of reactor produces nuclear waste, which stays hot for
a period of time and then should be isolated by burying it deep under the ground
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It is more expensive to obscure the waste, than to make one more nuclear power
plant
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Looking back in 1956 when was constructed the first commercial nuclear power reactor in
Pennsylvania, scientists started to concern the question of safety
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This meant that if something went wrong the power plant could potentially melt the
earth crust straight down to China from the US
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To be anti-nuclear is basically to be in favor with burning fossil fuels
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Burning coal and
producing a greenhouse effect by throwing astonishing amounts of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere entailed Greenpeace to consider further consequences that could lead to Earth's
major pollution
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The population is massively growing, and we need to find a source of energy that is clean
and produces enough energy for such a significant population
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Your phone, connected to the varieties of
servers, when you use internet or cellular uses as much electricity as your refrigerator at home
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Coal is the fastest growing source of energy, which does a lot of harm to the environment
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As I said before, burning fossil fuels produce carbon
dioxide and changes the climate
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Making solar panels on a large scale is an incredibly toxic process
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There wasn’t a single death from a nuclear
power disaster in America
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One more argument for Nuclear energy is background radiation, which affects us all the time,
and does no effect
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For example from
0-30 microRems in an hour is normal background radiation
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After 4th reactor of Chernobyl
power plant up exploded, three other were still working till middle 90's! People went to their
work every day without any fear
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Most of the town Pripyat,

which is 10 km away from the plant is fully abandoned nowadays, but some people from nearby
villages who were not evacuated right after the disaster, still live in the imperiled area for more
than 30 years, with no sign of cancer
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The main problem with both Chernobyl and Fukushima were that the system was unable to
cool down itself in time, and the situation went out of control
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Nowadays, we already have new 4th-generation
reactors that can shut themselves down, when something goes wrong, making them pretty
secure
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We can not come to
political terms on how to handle the waste stream
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And only 2% of
plutonium will be hot for thousands of years! Even more scientists now can make the waste
usable again
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They have clean air, cheapest
energy, and they are greener than Denmark and Germany
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And if you use all nuclear warheads produced as a
source of fuel for a power station, you can power all the world for the next 15 years
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Sources used:
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American Nuclear Society (ANS) http://www
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org
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world-nuclear

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