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article about environtment
Nama :alfi cholishoh
semester :2
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Nuclear power is the largest source of emission-free energy generation in the U.S. One of every five American homes and businesses gets its electricity from a nuclear plant.
Nuclear power is the largest source of emission-free energy generation in the U.S. One of every five American homes and businesses gets its electricity from a nuclear plant.
Meeting tighter
limits on air pollution is an ambitious task — one that would be
virtually impossible without the clean-air benefits of nuclear power.
The Department of Energy recognizes nuclear energy's essential role,
identifying it as the single most-effective strategy for reducing air
pollution.
Nuclear power is the only expandable, large-scale
energy source that avoids air pollution and can meet the electricity
demands of our growing economy. Nuclear plants do not emit carbon
dioxide or other greenhouse gases linked to global warming, nor do they
emit pollutants that contribute to haze or smog.
Here's another
way to look at nuclear energy's positive impact: Based on 1999 figures,
if nuclear plants had to be replaced with oil- or coal-burning plants,
the U.S. would have to eliminate 135 million passenger cars (about half
of all cars!) just to keep our carbon dioxide emissions at current
levels.
With regard to security, the nation's 103 nuclear power
plants are among the best-defended industrial facilities in the U.S. And
today's nuclear plants have state-of-the-art safety features to prevent
accidents.
Several notable environmentalists have recently
endorsed nuclear energy. They believe global warming is increasingly our
most pressing environmental concern, and recognize nuclear energy is a
key part of the solution.
— Scott Peterson, Vice President
Nuclear Energy Institute
Nuclear Energy Institute
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Nuclear energy is not the answer to global warming. It makes no sense to solve one set of environmental problems by creating a bigger and more serious set of problems. And nuclear energy is full of very big and very serious problems.
Nuclear energy is not the answer to global warming. It makes no sense to solve one set of environmental problems by creating a bigger and more serious set of problems. And nuclear energy is full of very big and very serious problems.
Although new nuclear power plants would
certainly be safer than older plants, the consequences of a major
accident are still the same: widespread and long-lasting radiation
pollution affecting several generations. An explosion at the Chernobyl
nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union in 1986 killed 31 people and caused
hundreds of thousands of cases of delayed illnesses.
In
addition, nuclear power plants make attractive targets for terrorists. A
disaster caused by sabotage or attack would cause great harm to people
and the environment. Another problem for the environment is the spent
fuel from nuclear power plants, which remains toxic for thousands of
years. The U.S. still has no operational long-term repository to store
this spent fuel safely.
The process of turning uranium into fuel
for nuclear reactors can be easily modified to produce uranium for
nuclear bombs. Pakistan's and India's nuclear bombs were made this way.
The potential use of these weapons — possibly by terrorists — would be
catastrophic to our environment.
Instead of investing in nuclear
power, which just trades one set of problems for another, let's invest
in renewable energy sources like wind and solar energy. They may cost a
little more now, but they don't cause any harm — and they don't run out.
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