Americans, and the rest of the world, should switch to nuclear power because it produces great amounts of energy with little to no waste, is constantly available and reusable, and nuclear energy is safe.
Nuclear energy provides great amounts of energy with very little amounts of nuclear material. In the documentary “Pandora’s Promise” Leonard Koch(died on the fifteenth of may in 2015) said that “one pound of uranium, which is about the size of my fingertip, would produce the same amount of energy as five thousand barrels of oil.” Now in one forty-two gallon barrel of oil there is five point eight million btu(british thermal units), one btu would raise a pot of water one degree. Multiply five point eight million by five thousand, and you get …show more content…
An article on radioactive waste has stated that “Breeders offer a virtually inexhaustible source of energy…. With breeders, the amount of plutonium stays in principle constant, because the fuel is regenerated.” What this means is that the reactor uses neutrons to split the plutonium, which then creates more nuclear material to use as energy, and produces no waste. In the documentary “Pandora’s Promise” Leonard Koch said “Breeder reactor work by creating heat, and once the heat is created, it turns into steam and from that point on it’s just like any other source of energy.” This only strengthens the fact that the energy source is …show more content…
The second piece of evidence I used was that the energy source is clean and is seemingly infinite, the use of the breeder reactor is what makes nuclear one of the most clean and infinite energy sources that we can use. The last piece of evidence that I provided in favor of the energy source is that it is safe, IFR reactors are the safest form of nuclear energy in the world because they can not meltdown, and there have been the least human deaths in nuclear energy
Nuclear energy provides great amounts of energy with very little amounts of nuclear material. In the documentary “Pandora’s Promise” Leonard Koch(died on the fifteenth of may in 2015) said that “one pound of uranium, which is about the size of my fingertip, would produce the same amount of energy as five thousand barrels of oil.” Now in one forty-two gallon barrel of oil there is five point eight million btu(british thermal units), one btu would raise a pot of water one degree. Multiply five point eight million by five thousand, and you get …show more content…
An article on radioactive waste has stated that “Breeders offer a virtually inexhaustible source of energy…. With breeders, the amount of plutonium stays in principle constant, because the fuel is regenerated.” What this means is that the reactor uses neutrons to split the plutonium, which then creates more nuclear material to use as energy, and produces no waste. In the documentary “Pandora’s Promise” Leonard Koch said “Breeder reactor work by creating heat, and once the heat is created, it turns into steam and from that point on it’s just like any other source of energy.” This only strengthens the fact that the energy source is …show more content…
The second piece of evidence I used was that the energy source is clean and is seemingly infinite, the use of the breeder reactor is what makes nuclear one of the most clean and infinite energy sources that we can use. The last piece of evidence that I provided in favor of the energy source is that it is safe, IFR reactors are the safest form of nuclear energy in the world because they can not meltdown, and there have been the least human deaths in nuclear energy