NUCLEAR POWER By Carl Anderson
By Carl Anderson What do you think about when you hear nuclear?
Dec 23, 2015
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- By Carl Anderson
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- What do you think about when you hear nuclear?
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- Chernobyl or nuclear waste?
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- Homer Simpson?
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- Thats not nuclear power
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- How about green? Nuclear energy is carbon free
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- How about Safe? Nuclear power is one of the safest industries on the planet. Affordable Nuclear Power is one of the cheapest ways to produce energy.
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- Where does electricity come from?
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- Why is coal is the most used energy source on the planet?
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- The cheapest way is always the best way to do things Right?
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- Coal has hidden costs It is polluting Major source of air born pollution and acid rain Coal produces more CO 2 than any other energy source It is dangerous Coal mining is hazardous, and has long term affects
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- 20 th Century U.S. fatalities War fatalities: Vietnam, Korea, Philippines, Gulf War: 116,582 World War I & II: 521,915 Coal mining accidents: 130,000 CWP/Black Lung Disease: 635,000
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- A lifetime of burning coal will give you: 160 tons of particulate matter (ash) 2,300,000 lbs. of CO 2 65,000 lbs. of SO 2 18,000 lbs. of carbon monoxide 20 tons of toxic coal tar 6.4 oz. of mercury 1.2 oz. of radio-nucleotides
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- A lifetime of Nuclear Power Will fission 3.5 oz. of Uranium
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- What about nuclear weapons? Atomic bomb uses ultra enriched fuel (95%) Nuclear reactor uses slightly enriched fuel (1.5%) U 235 or Pu 239
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- Nuclear generation reduces nuclear weapons 50% of all nuclear fuel (10% of all U.S electricity) comes from former soviet warheads.
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- If nuclear is so safe, what happened at Chernobyl? Springfield Nuclear Plant the Simpsons Nuclear Plant 4, Chernobyl, Ukraine April 27, 1986
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- Chernobyl accident No safety structures Obsolete Design Safety overrides turned off Culture of disregard 632 fatalities 2,000 cases of cancer
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- What about nuclear waste? Only 4% of uranium is used in the fuel cycle of a standard nuclear power plant. France, Russia, Japan, Canada recycle spent nuclear fuel, the USA does not. 1% of nuclear fuel is converted into plutonium. With a healthy recycling program & Plutonium/MOX reactors, nuclear waste can be reduced by more than 90%
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- What happens to nuclear waste?
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- Wait, what about Green options?
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- Renewables take a lot of space 4,000 8,000 windmills to equal one nuclear plant
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- Renewables have limitations Wind Intermittent Not Scalable Unreliable Diffuse Carbon free Solar Intermittent Most Expensive Carbon free Nuclear Dependable On demand Affordable Safe Scalable Compact Carbon free
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- Its been 30 years since a Nuclear Plant has been built in the US In that time designs have gotten Safer Smaller Cleaner More efficient
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- So what? The only way to change lives is by changing minds. -Martin Luther King Jr. Nuclear power will allow us to maintain both our environment and way of life into the 21 st century and beyond.
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