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All throughout the world people and countries are searching for ways to replace fossil fuels as an energy source, and one way they try is nuclear power. Nuclear power plants have the potential to be very dangerous to not only the people that live near, but also the entire area. If something goes wrong it could cause an entire swath of land to become uninhabitable for millions of years, basically forever in the spectrum of human life. Therefore it is imperative that before nuclear power plants…

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…

Nuclear power plants have increased over the United States since the 1940s. In the states, there are 99 nuclear power plants. With all these plants, nearly three million Americans live within 10 miles of one. Citizens of Yankton live fairly close to a nuclear power plant which is Pathfinder Nuclear Generating Station located near the city of Sioux Falls. During the 1960, Sioux Falls was a hub of industry and productivity in South Dakota at the time. This made Sioux Falls the ideal place for…

Nuclear Waste in Mississippi (Milestone 2) Elizabeth Pritchard SCI 333 Professor Kimberly Schulte July 10, 2016 Product Need Nuclear waste and radioactive waste in general are ongoing issues. When the nuclear power and radioactive materials that we use today were created and initially used many years ago, scientists were not concerned with the disposal methods as much as they are today because of the fact that they would not have worry about that any time soon after the…

Nuclear chemistry is unsafe and because the drawbacks outweigh the benefits, it should not be used in modern day technology and science. With its ability to remain for hundreds to thousands of years, and with no safe place to store it, it sucks up space and money. Additionally, the transplant of nuclear waste can be a mark for terrorism, making it even more unsafe. Nuclear, radioactive, radiation, nuclear waste; what do these words bring to mind? Most would think of a superhero, or a deformed…

Nuclear power is used worldwide, but is put under the question as to if it is more beneficial than harmful. Nuclear power is the process of atomic reactions that produce a form of energy, in the United States providing about twenty percent of the country 's electricity. The controversy that pertains nuclear power use has been gradually escalating because some may believe that nuclear power plants are more harmful than safe and some may disagree of the matter. Nuclear power is questionable due to…

It is estimated that there are over ten thousand nuclear weapons around the world, and depending on the size of the bomb, it would take as little as two thousand to destroy all of North America and just thirteen thousand more to destroy the entire world. We have all seen the footage of nuclear weapons being detonated; the force of it and the power of it is jaw dropping. We tend to forget just how powerful a nuclear bomb really is. Over the past decades, as technology and knowledge of nuclear…

Background and Information leading to the incident The meltdown at Three Mile Island is a combination of both mechanical failure and human error. Mechanical failure was first observed at the non–nuclear part of the plant where failure in the main feed water pumps prevented the supply of water to the steam generators further cutting the heat in the core reactor. Increasing heat in the turbine generator lead to turbine shut down causing increased pressure in the nuclear portion of the plant. With…

The natural disasters coupled with poor engineering designs and decisions resulted in a (Naoto Kan, 2013) “meltdown and melt through” in Reactor Unit 1 from the hydrogen explosions in Unit 1,2 and 3. Unit 4 also suffered a hydrogen explosion (without meltdown). As a result, (Iaea.org, 2011) the disaster received a level 7 INES accident rating from IAEA, the highest in the entire world along with the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Therefore, it is apparent that the consequence would be on a large…

As a worker at “Top Coal Australia”, I absolutely believe that we must not use uranium as an energy source. Many people believe that uranium is a clean and a good source of energy. It is most certainly not. It is dangerous and if there is a radioactive spill, many people can be fatally injured or even killed. Uranium is not an easy source to mine and it is extremely harmful to the air while transporting it to and from. Radioactive waste disposal is an undoubtedly big issue with having uranium…