Nuclear Energy Persuasive Essay

As the world grows more populated and people become more immersed in their modern lives power-generation has become the leading cause of air pollution, and the biggest contributing factor to global warming in the US. Finding a source of clean renewable energy at the lowest cost and lowest impact on the environment has become a very complex mission. Not only is the race for a renewable energy source dire to help save the planet, our current major power source, Coal is slowly but surely running out. As scientists look into new forms of power, Nuclear Energy has some aspects that are very alluring but consequences that I believe are far too great. “The Fukushima disaster in March 2011, and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 verify the danger that comes with Nuclear Reactors.”(“World Health Organization”) Ethically speaking, I would …show more content…
A power plant annually generates 20 metric tons of high-level radioactive waste, every nuclear plant combined annually produces 2,000 metric tons. As stated by the Greenpeace Organization the only way to safely dispose of radioactive waste is for the Nuclear Energy to be isolated for over 1,000 years. As proven by leaders, law and curriculum it is safe to say we can not 100% trust a company to keep working to monitor the isolation for as long as necessary. Despite what the Nuclear Industry tells us, Greenpeace condones that “building enough nuclear power stations to make a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would cost trillions of dollars, create tens of thousands of tons of radioactive waste, and most importantly squander the resources and funds necessary to implement meaningful power generating solutions. Not only do nuclear plants cause significant damage to the environment, the health of populations and to national economies, the heavy financial cost of a meltdown is inevitably borne by the public, not by the companies that designed, built, and operated the