Nuclear Energy Argumentative Essay

When you hear Nuclear, what do you think? Does it have a negative connotation? Well if you are like most people, it does have a negative connotation? When people think about nuclear energy they think about Chernobyl or Fukushima. Heck when people hear Nuclear they think about weapons of mass destruction. People write off nuclear energy because its not safe, not cost effective, and not needed. But rather than make a coherent gut feeling we must come to a better informed decision about nuclear energy, and as information shows nuclear energy provides one of the cleanest, most efficient, and yes even one of the safer power sources right now and is capable of being made infinitely better with more research. The benefits of nuclear energy outweigh the common rhetorics against it and shows that it is the greatest energy resource for the future. …show more content…
Fuel for Nuclear power is abundant with Uranium reserves being the most mined for substances because it is a relatively common mineral found in rocks and seawater. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) did a joint study in 2010 saying that uranium resources are good enough to meet nuclear energy needs for at least the next 100 years at present consumption levels. More efficient fast reactors could extend that period to more than 2,500 years. Also, even if we run out of uranium, thorium is also a nuclear fuel that is even more abundant than uranium; by the way, other than being abundant, thorium is very hard to turn into nuclear weapons and is less wasteful than current nuclear reactor