Transcription of Advantages Disadvantages of Nuclear Energy
1 , Advantages & Disadvantages of Nuclear EnergyPage I of 3 Advantages & Disadvantagesof Nuclear EnergyBy: Celina Treviho (M) & Omar Alatorre(M) Advantages : Nuclear Energy tackles 3 of the greatest problems humanity hasencountered in its struggle to get ) Nuclear power plants don't require a lot of )lt doesn't pollute (it does, but in a very different moreabout it further on.)c) Nuclear Energy is by far the most concentrated form :-One of the main Disadvantages of Nuclear Energy is that nuclearexplosions produce radiation, this radiation harms the cells of the bodywhich can make humans sick or even cause them death. Illness canappear or strike people years after they were exposed to possible type of reactor disaster is known as a meltdown. In ameltdown, the fission reaction of an atom goes out of control, whichleads to a Nuclear explosion releasing great amounts of are some examples of meltdowns that have happened & Disadvantages of Nuclear EnergyPage 2 of 3history::* In 1979, at the Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, thecooling system of a Nuclear reactor failed.
2 Radiation escaped, forcingtens of thousands of people to run away. Fortunately the problem wassolved minutes before a total meltdown would have occurred, andthere were no 1986, a much worse disaster hit Russia's Chernobyl Nuclear powerplant. In this incident, a large amount of radiation escaped from thereactor. Hundreds of thousands of people were exposed to theradiation. Several dozen died within a few days. In the upcomingyears, thousands more may die of cancers induced by the radiation.* Reactors produce Nuclear waste products which emit dangerousradiation, because they could kill people who touch them, they cannotbe thrown away like ordinary garbage. Nowadays, lots of nuclearwastes are stored in special cooling pools at the Nuclear USA plans to move all its Nuclear was to an isolatedunderground dump by the year 1957, Nuclear wastes buried at a dump site in Russia's UralMountains, near Moscow, mysteriously exploded.
3 This caused thedeath of dozens of people-Another disadvantage is that Nuclear reactors only last for about fortyto fifty :http://www. thebulletin. org/index. htmhttp://www. nuclearfiles.
