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Energy consumption is a necessity in the current day and age. Without it we would not be able to develop and maintain new ways to prolong the average life span. However, there is a catch to modern methods of energy development. Pollution created by energy producing plants has become a major looked at factor that affects our health and minimizes prolonged life. Nuclear energy has been argued to be the cleanest and most efficient energy source currently known, and has also been argued to be the most volatile and economically unfit.
The idea for usage of Nuclear energy began in 1945 after the first nuclear bomb was tested. After events like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl in 1979 and 1986, respectively, the use of Nuclear Power Plants drastically declined. These Nuclear meltdowns created quite a scare and the media took hold of the topics, never letting them go when the topic of nuclear energy is brought up. Nobody was every killed in the event of Three Mile Island, but in Chernobyl, 31 were killed, 28 of which had to do with actual radiation. From the research that I have done, I have come to believe that the negative effects of nuclear energy has not been given the proper recognition by the media. Because of this, society in general seems to fear nuclear energy and wants nothing to do with it.
When thinking about nuclear power plants, a lot of people get an image similar to that of the power plant in the popular TV show, "The Simpson's". There is an image of massive amounts of radiation, nuclear waste, and other pollutants being poured out into the air. In reality, the more commonly used Coal power plants fit this profile better. For every pound of plutonium that it takes to create energy, it takes an equivalent of the Yankee's baseball stadium full of coal to create that same amount of energy. Now can you imagine how much ash must be produced from this coal compared to only a pound of plutonium? So when we look at...
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