Even though Nuclear energy may be the best and can meet our worlds needs sometimes Nuclear energy can be bad for the environment. Nuclear Energy results from a reaction that takes place in the nucleus of an atom. After World War 2, Nuclear reactors were used primarily for research and plutonium production in the beginning. Two main types of Nuclear reactions that release energy are known as fission and fusion. Nuclear fission occurs when the nucleus of an atom is split apart into two smaller nuclei. With all the good things about Nuclear energy there may be many bad things about it.
Nuclear energy has many factors that make it one of the world's best energies, but with these pros there are several cons as well. One main con is that if the Nuclear power plants were to break nuclear waste would create a devastating catastrophe in the city or town that the plant is located in. With this extremely uncommon problem comes the second con which is that Nuclear power plants are potential terrorist targets. Nuclear power plants are full of dangerous waste and if terrorist planes were to fly into the power plants the dangerous chemicals would be released into the surrounding area. Another problem that cities have to deal with is that Nuclear power plants are only operational for a few years. After the power plants go out of business the
power plants are permanently shut down. The multiple bad things in this document is just a quarter of how many good things there are about nuclear energy. Even though there are only a couple bad things they are the
most dangerous and harmful. Altogether nuclear energy can be good or bad.
By: ML & G