What is Benefits / Advantages Nuclear Power Energy ?

What is Benefits / Advantages Nuclear Power Energy ?

“One good thing about nuclear power emits practical not (well, very litle) carbon dioxide (CO2),” said Berol Robinson, president of the United States branch of the Environmentalist for Nuclear Energy (EFN).

A small amount of CO2 is emitted in the “fuel cycle” – from mining uranium, repair, enrichment and fuel fabrication, transportation, decommissioning, and waste disposal. But it’s only a small percentage of that emitted by burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas, to get the same amount of energy.

CO2 is also emitted when a nuclear power plant was built of cement made by burning a limestone soil minerals. “The absence of CO2 emissions from nuclear power stations is a strong reason to support nuclear power because it slows down the trend of global warming.”

“There is no industry in the world paid more attention to safety,” Robinson added. “The regulations do not violate the safety investigation, evaluated and reported to the public, but most are ignored by the media.”

According to the founder of EFN Bruno Comby, if the nuclear reactor that was built well and designed well, a bad accident will not happen even if it is bad. “Take Three Mile Island; made a mistake, causing the accident. However, no one is hurt.”

Unlike oil and gas deposits, which may be exhausted in a few decades, uranium is abundant. Robinson said: “With our present primitive nuclear technology, we use less than 1% of the energy in uranium, the rest is now considered nuclear waste, and safely stored away permanently.

“In the near future we will build up the strength of the station can better use the energy locked in the uranium. Uranium reserves will then be automatically extended 30 or 50 times, depending on the technology.

In addition, there are thorium, nuclear fuel which is three or four times more than uranium. Used as nuclear fuel in India.

Comby estimates that “1 gram of uranium produces the same energy as one ton of oil.” In addition, nuclear energy is competitive with fossil fuel energy, Robinson said.

“Cost of nuclear fuel is only a small part of the price of kilowatt-hours and will remain so, while the fuel cost is the main fossil fuel and renewable energy threatens to grow worse with the impending scarcity of oil and gas. People criticise the investment of public funds in the nuclear , but compared to fossil fuel benefit. ”

He added that energy is not enough demand for electricity in the modern industrial civilization from this day. If one is to reduce demand through improved energy efficiency or economy, increasing demand will eventually overtake the supply.

“Nuclear has been developed to the level of industry. Provide 20% of the electricity supply in the United States and 75% of that in France,” said Robinson.