Nuclear Energy and Waste

            Nuclear energy is a genius advance in science that is both more efficient and cleaner than the regular fossil fuels often used to create energy. Nuclear reactions create less waste, more easily controlled energy, and are created by more easily accessible resources.

            Nuclear reactors produce less waste because more energy can be created with fewer resources. Uranium can produce 3.7 million times as much energy as the same amount of coal can. Waste is the lowest class of radioactivity and is always monitored so that it doesn’t leak into where it can cause harm. Energy Solutions in Utah has gone 3,500,000 hours without incident and nuclear waste does not expel as much carbon dioxide (CO2) as coal does, leaving our ozone intact.

                Energy produced by nuclear plants is more easily controlled than that of coal or natural gas. Fuel rods are slightly uncovered if more power is wanted, and are then covered again when the need for nuclear power goes down. When the fuel rods are spent, they are simply taken out and put into cooling tanks to reduce in heat while coal plants must truck away tons of ash after burning their fuel stores.

                Resources for nuclear energy is more easily at our disposal than that of coal or natural gas. Uranium can be found in abundance and spent fuel rods can also be recycled. This is especially true since so much more energy is produced with smaller amounts of fuel.

                Nuclear energy is being more and more throughout the world. It’s a good resource that should be taken advantage of because it create less waste, more easily controlled energy, and is created by more easily accessible resources.