Should we use more nuclear power to generate electricity? My anwser is yes! Almost everyone today is effected by electricity in one way or another. We use it to light are homes, power our computers, some use it even to shave! Our society today would be lost without electricity. We are quikly runnning out of the fossil fuels that we use to produse the electricity. That is why nuclear power is such a good power source! You see, even though uranium, the element used to make nuclear energy, is a nonrenewable resource it is so abudant that it is found in rocks all over the world. There are so many advantages to using nuclear energy and so little to dislike about it. Using nuclear power to generate electricity does not pollute the air or water because it is done inside the reactor. Plus, the energy from nuclear power is so great that a piece of uranium the size of your fingernail is equal to 150 gallons of oil.
There is a down side to Nuclear power though. After so much energy is prodused, the reactors can become radioactive. This is dangourous to the people and enviremont that are near the plant. At this point, we basically throw the reactors into a big pool and wait for them to lessen in radioactiveness, which does work because of radioactive decay. This process can take thousands of years though. But scientist are working to fix this problem. They now are building a facility to better house the reactors.
I hope you now see my point! Nuclear power is a great resource that we could use so much to our advantage. I just hope tat the rest of America relizes before it is too late.
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