Before I express my side if I’m in favor of nuclear power and nuclear power plant here in the Philippines‚ let us first be aware of what is a nuclear power plant. Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provided about 5.7% of the world’s energy and 13% of the world’s electricity‚ in 2012. In 2013‚ the IAEA report that there are 437 operational nuclear power reactors (although not all are producing electricity‚ some are idle for
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Possibility of Nuclear Reliance in Hong Kong 1. Introduction Do you know Hong Kong uses 70% of the electricity generated by The Guangdong Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station (China Light & Power Holdings Limited‚ 2010)? The main controversy of nuclear power is its safety and the problem of waste storage. Though Hong Kong is heavily relying on fossil fuels‚ Hong Kong should increase its reliance on nuclear power in the near future. This essay aims to examine the possibility and benefit of having a nuclear power
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Many American’s assume that nuclear waste can be more dangerous than natural radioactive substances already present in the Earth currently. However‚ Richard Muller challenges this assumption in his chronicle “Nuclear Waste” by demonstrating the mathematical differences concerning the half-life of numerous radioactive substances. Basically‚ Muller is warning that “the dangers of storing our waste at Yucca Mountain to be small compared of the dangers of not doing so‚ and significantly smaller than
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sure the new technology is safer. Recent Disaster For all intents and purposes the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its six reactors actually
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Some people claim that the advantages of nuclear power overbalance drawbacks. They believe that nuclear weapons provide peace all over the world. And I totally disagree with their statements. First of all‚ people should remember that nuclear power is one of the most dangerous sources of energy. Even one little mistake could lead to unbelievable disaster‚ which could bring a lot of damage to the present and future generations. Good examples here are the Chernobyl catastrophe and more recent Fukushima’s
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Nuclear energy is the energy created in a nuclear reaction which is the changes can occur in the structure of the nuclei of atoms. Nuclear energy was discovered in the mid-twentieth century and first utilized in a military capacity in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It all started rather innocently in 1896‚ when Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in Uranium. The next step came in 1902 when Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radioactive metal called Radium. In 1934‚ Enrico
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GENERAL ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION DISADVANTAGES: 1. Nuclear power is a controversial method of producing electricity. Many people and environmental organisations are very concerned about the radioactive fuel it needs. 2. There have been serious accidents with a small number of nuclear power stations. The accident at Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986‚ led to 30 people being killed and over 100‚000 people being evacuated. In the preceding years another 200
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What is General Nuclear Medicine? Nuclear medicine is a branch of medical imaging that uses small amounts of radioactive material to diagnose and determine the severity of or treat a variety of diseases‚ including many types of cancers‚ heart disease‚ gastrointestinal‚ endocrine‚ neurological disorders and other abnormalities within the body. Because nuclear medicine procedures are able to pinpoint molecular activity within the body‚ they offer the potential to identify disease in its earliest stages
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(a) explain the importance of mitosis in the production of genetically identical cells‚ growth‚ repair and asexual reproduction; (b) [PA] describe‚ with the aid of diagrams‚ the behavior of ( )[ ] chromosomes during the mitotic cell cycle and the associated behavior of the nuclear envelope‚ cell membrane‚ centrioles and spindle (names of the main stages are expected); (c) explain how uncontrolled cell division can result in cancer and identify factors that can increase the chances of cancerous growth; (d) explain the mea
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Nuclear Beauty: The Uranium Story Uranium one of about 118 elements on our great periodic table. It is the 92nd element in the Periodic Tale and it can be found on the last group on the periodic table‚ or period 7. Its element symbol is U‚ with an atomic mass of 92; A Molar Mass of 238.028910‚ and 92 electrons as well as protons and a total of 6 valance electrons. Its melting point is 2‚070 degrees Fahrenheit (1‚132 degrees Celsius‚ or 1405.372 K) and with a boiling point of 7‚468 degrees Fahrenheit
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