Nuclear Energy Policy Mark Holt Specialist in Energy Policy May 27‚ 2010 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov RL33558 CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Nuclear Energy Policy Summary Nuclear energy issues facing Congress include federal incentives for new commercial reactors‚ radioactive waste management policy‚ research and development priorities‚ power plant safety and regulation‚ nuclear weapons proliferation‚ and security against
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consist of protons and neutrons‚ which have a positive or negative charge. Electric forces are repulsive between similar charges‚ so there must be a force much stronger than electromagnetism keeping them together. This force is called the Strong Nuclear Force‚ and it is about a hundred times stronger than the electromagnetic force. Its strength allows it to hold a nucleus together‚ despite the desire of the electromagnetic force to thrust it apart. Despite its relative strength‚ the strong force
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in desperate need of a new source of energy. Nuclear energy can be the answer to our country’s problems. In 1938‚ Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman conducted an experiment in which they hurdled a neutron at extremely high speeds towards the element uranium. This caused the nucleus of the atom to split‚ and from there neutrons continued to split other neutrons in a process known as fission. A chain reaction of sustained energy release was created and nuclear energy was born. After this discovery‚ from1938
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Profile of a Career Path Independent Nuclear Community Pharmacy Owner Brief Description The independent community pharmacy owner is a hybridized role that emphasizes pharmacist management skills in a community setting. The individual is responsible for both providing care to the community and for maintaining the stability of the business itself
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Nuclear Weapons Debate The icing of my debate is the use of nuclear weapons. This is all about public controversies relating to the use of nuclear weapons. Nuclear disarmament refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world. It is said by Edward Gladstone. “We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then our world will know the blessing of peace”- The use of nuclear power is highly fatal
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constantly changing. The “normal” American family is known as the nuclear family‚ with a mother‚ father‚ son‚ daughter‚ and occasionally‚ a pet. But as time has progressed‚ the nuclear family has had to make room for larger families‚ single parent families‚ biracial families‚ and families with step and half relatives in them. After WWII‚ the American family’s structure changed drastically‚ with many types of families appearing‚ aside from the nuclear family structure. The baby boom led to larger families
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Nuclear energy is an efficient way to reduce the amount of CO2 in the environment. Nuclear energy saves of 2.5 billion tonnes of CO2 if that same amount of energy was made from burning coal. For every 22 tonnes of uranium used in the nuclear power plant‚ one million tonnes of CO2 emissions isn’t put into the environment. If the world doubled its nuclear output‚ it would reduce CO2 emissions by about a fourth. Nuclear energy uses less than 6% of their output energy to make their nuclear power plant
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Using material from item 2B and elsewhere‚ asses the view that the nuclear family is no longer the norm. A nuclear family is today seen as only one of many family types in modern day society‚ there are many different variations. Some sociologists say that nuclear families is and should remain the norm‚ whilst others believe that society is now too diverse to simply have only one family type. A reason in particular that nuclear families are no longer the norm is That‚ divorce rate has increased
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In these modern times‚ are nuclear power plants feasible to every nation around the world? How about in a nation experiencing the toll of depletion of resources‚ destruction of nature and poverty at the same time; is it still an answer for economic growth? Is the construction of nuclear power plants an aid for the spur of development of a country or a growing threat to the environment? Do nuclear power plants serve the people best or destroy the nature best? Nuclear power plants are said to have
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under scholarly articles. The article explains how there is renewed interest in Nuclear Energy as an energy source that could solve the issue of electricity without carbon emissions. The article then explains how nuclear energy performs‚ its safety issues and waste management strategies. The article also mentions negative aspects of Nuclear Energy including the problems in nuclear power development including costs of nuclear reactor construction and security concerns. I will likely use this article
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