Nuclear Energy; The good and The bad
Most of the world’s energy presently comes from fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas, but this can’t go on forever. As well as the problem of global warming there is the simple fact that the Earth has a limited amount of these resources. Apart from energy from fossil fuels, the other alternative is energy from Nuclear power.
The use of Nuclear Power has been controversial for a long time. Proponents of its use claim that it is a very clean form of energy since very little fuel is needed to generate a lot of energy, nuclear power stations don’t contribute to global warming by pushing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as burning the fossil fuels. However, because of accidents such as a leak of radiation at the Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan, and the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, all people living within twenty kilometers of the plant were leave their homes permanently, and estimates of the eventual number of deaths from radiation-related illness. So, many people are opposed to Nuclear Power.
Therefore, The nuclear power is the clean power and It is less damaging to the environment than the combustion of coal and oil, but they is more risky. That is why, they argue that nuclear power will always have to be part of the solution to the world’s energy problems.