Over christmas vacation in 1938, nuclear fission was a startling discovery made by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch. The discovery immediately revolutionize nuclear physics and a lead to the atomic bomb. This essays discusses the building of a nuclear power plant South St. Paul, Minnesota. I am arguing that we should not build a nuclear power plant in South St. Paul, MN. It takes on an average amount of fifthteen years to build. There could be a nuclear accident, such as a nuclear meltdown. Also building a nuclear power plant is expensive, It costs billions of dollars.
Nuclear power plants produce electricity by water coming from a reservoir and going into a condenser. It then is in a reactor where there are control rods that are used to control the fission; It is the process of splitting uranium atoms. It generates heat to produce steam. The steam the goes into a turbine that turns a generator. It then creates electricity which travels through the switch yards.
Nuclear waste is the stuff that comes from the reactor. The waste is exhausted fuel cells after they come out of the reactor. They are the remains of the fuel Uranium and Plutonium nuclei after they split. They are nuclear waste atoms. There is high-level and low level waste. The high-level waste …show more content…
Low pollution, Nuclear power also has a lot fewer greenhouse emissions. Nuclear energy has one of the least effect on nature, since it doesn’t discharge any greenhouse gasses. Low operating cost, Nuclear power produces very inexpensive electricity. Since the cost of a nuclear reactor is anywhere between from 40-60 years, depending on how often it is used and how it is being used. Reliability, There has been an estimation that with the current rate of consumption of uranium, We may have enough uranium for 70-80 years. A nuclear power plant does not depend on the weather and can run without disruption in any weather
Nuclear power plants produce electricity by water coming from a reservoir and going into a condenser. It then is in a reactor where there are control rods that are used to control the fission; It is the process of splitting uranium atoms. It generates heat to produce steam. The steam the goes into a turbine that turns a generator. It then creates electricity which travels through the switch yards.
Nuclear waste is the stuff that comes from the reactor. The waste is exhausted fuel cells after they come out of the reactor. They are the remains of the fuel Uranium and Plutonium nuclei after they split. They are nuclear waste atoms. There is high-level and low level waste. The high-level waste …show more content…
Low pollution, Nuclear power also has a lot fewer greenhouse emissions. Nuclear energy has one of the least effect on nature, since it doesn’t discharge any greenhouse gasses. Low operating cost, Nuclear power produces very inexpensive electricity. Since the cost of a nuclear reactor is anywhere between from 40-60 years, depending on how often it is used and how it is being used. Reliability, There has been an estimation that with the current rate of consumption of uranium, We may have enough uranium for 70-80 years. A nuclear power plant does not depend on the weather and can run without disruption in any weather