Nuclear Power: The Most Important Part Of The Atomic Bomb

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NUCLEAR POWER
Nuclear Power, one important part of the Atomic Bomb can do a lot of good things, like one to five households and business receive electricity from nuclear plants, thirteen percent of the world’s electricity becomes by the nuclear energy, and the United States saves twelve billion dollars each year by using nuclear power instead of other energy powers. But even the best things have bad things, there have been 1.57 nuclear accidents since 1986, nuclear waste can be toxic for a human about a hundred thousand years after is released. The nuclear power is a terrible weapon, but we can use it for good things and be united by being at peace and not in war. On July 16, 1945 the United States tested the first nuclear weapon of the world

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