A nuclear reactor, or power plant, is a series of machines that can control nuclear fission to produce electricity. The fuel that nuclear reactors use to produce nuclear fission is pellets of the element uranium. In a nuclear reactor, atoms of uranium are forced to break apart. As they split, the atoms release tiny particles called fission products. Fission products cause other uranium atoms to split, starting a chain reaction. The energy released from this chain reaction creates heat.
The heat created by nuclear fission warms the reactorscooling agent. A cooling agent is usually water, but some nuclear reactors use liquid metal or molten salt. The cooling agent, heated by nuclear fission, producessteam. The steam turns turbines, or wheels turned by a flowing current. The turbines drive generators, or engines that create electricity.
Positive
1. Lower Greenhouse
2. Powerful and Efficient
3. Reliable
4. Cheap Electricity
5. Low Fuel Cost
6. Easy Transportation
Negative
1. Radioactive Waste
2. Nuclear Accidents
3. National Risk
4. Impact on Aquatic Life
5. Non Renewable
6. Fuel Availability
In Thailand we don’t have nuclear energy. But The Prime Minister has explained the plan for a nuclear power plant to produce energy for Thailand and help Thailand move away from reliance on oil and gas. Thailand is a net importer of energy, getting much of its energy from the middle east at a huge cost to the country. Added to that the use of oil is polluting and a cause of green house gases.
So the plan is to import huge numbers of foreign experts into Thailand and spend lots of money to build a nuclear power plant which would be operational by about 2020. Thailand would then need to continue hiring foreigners to run the plant, perhaps continue paying off the foreign debt they will get by building the plant and will be in constant need of foreign uranium and foreign help to get rid of or store the incredibly toxic waste produce that comes from nuclear energy.