How Should Australia Use Nuclear Energy Persuasive Essay

Nuclear Question: Should Australia Partake Almost 40% of all enriched uranium begins its half-life in Australia but none of this is being used to generate energy in Australia. This is mostly due to the negative stigma that accompanies nuclear power. The fear of meltdowns, accidents and sabotage has lead the general populace to influence legislation against the use of nuclear power. Their fears, however, are unfounded as nuclear power is profitable, efficient and above all safe. Since such fears are mostly unfounded and the positives of nuclear energy outweigh the negatives it is safe to say Australia should adopt nuclear reactors to power their energy needs. The most common argument used against nuclear energy is often that it is a danger to our health, therefore the first step to prove that adopting nuclear power is beneficial, is to prove that it is safer than many other accepted forms of power. To start off with, nuclear energy has by far the fewest accidents of any fuelled plants to date with only 3 major incidents and only two that actually escaped the plant. Many …show more content…
Nuclear power is fuelled by uranium and 40% of that uranium is mined from Australia’s soil. If Australia decided that nuclear power plants were to be built there would be a ready stock of unrefined reactor fuel to access. This would mean that as long as Australia refined the fuel itself there would be little to no reliance on foreign imports to fuel the reactors. Some may argue that the experts needed to run a nuclear reactor would have to be imported but this is a good thing. It would mean that Australia has efficient and safe reactors while creating relationships with other countries and it would not impact budget much as experts are employed in every nuclear reactor. So the energy would still be