“Use of Nuclear Energy: Safe or Not?” 23 Aug Most countries today are becoming more and more dependent on nuclear power as a source of energy because of its high energy output and the availability of uranium used for fuelling nuclear reactors that generate power to provide electricity in households. Although using nuclear power as a source of energy has benefits like this‚ the danger posed by using nuclear power is very eminent. This was demonstrated in the recent Fukushima daiichi nuclear reactor
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Nuclear Medicine Nuclear medicine has been around for more than 50 years now and stems from the discovery of x-rays and artificial radioactivity. In 1946‚ nuclear medicine made a monumental breakthrough when radioactive iodine led to the complete disappearance of cancer in a patient’s thyroid. Nuclear medicine became widely used in the 1950’s to measure the function of the thyroid‚ to diagnose thyroid disease‚ and for the treatment of patients with hyperthyroidism. By the 1970’s nuclear medicine
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Nuclear World If a nuclear bomb was dropped on your city‚ how would you survive? The blast from the fission bomb on Hiroshima‚ which weighed 30 kilotons‚ was equivalent to 12‚500 tons of TNT. Now‚ if this was dropped right outside your house‚ there would be no way of survival. But‚ one megaton hydrogen bomb is said to have 80 times the explosive intensity of the fission bomb detonated in 1945. The destructive force of the hydrogen bomb is near unimaginable. But first‚ let’s take a
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Nuclear power‚ or nuclear energy‚ is the use of exothermic nuclear processes carried out in controlled manner‚ to generate useful heat and electricity. Nuclear power works by using the energy from nuclear fission or fusion to generate heat. At the moment‚ nuclear fusion is still a subject of intense research and not used in production which is a pity. Nuclear fission is basically what is happening in a reactor. Radioactive elements have unstable nuclei and they are constantly going through random
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Nuclear Disasters and Accidents Introduction: One of the scariest things about nuclear power is when something goes wrong and an accident occurs. Radiation is released into the environment and people get hurt. Two of the most famous nuclear accidents occurred at the Three Mile Island reactor 2 in the United States and the Chernobyl reactor 4 in the former Soviet Union. In this text we will discuss these two disasters‚ along with correcting a few common misconceptions about nuclear accidents. The
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19 Nuclear Energy 19.1 Energy in your life Almost everything around us uses electricity and in order to power these devices‚ we must generate it. To create electrical energy‚ we must create thermal energy. Several techniques include using coal‚ natural gas‚ or nuclear thermal to create heat. Once heat is created‚ it is used to vaporize water and use the steam to propel a piston which turns an electric generator. Alternative energy sources include wind‚ solar‚ and micro hydro. 19.2 Nuclear Structure
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NUCLEAR ENERGY Nuclear energy is the energy contained in the centre ‚ or nucleus of an atom. The nucleus is the most powerful source of energy that exist. Nuclear energy is use in scientific research and in medicine treatments. It powers satellites and submarines‚ and it is used to produce electricity. People have also put nuclear energy to destructive uses through the creation of weapons.1 Nuclear energy also called ATOMIC ENERGY‚ energy
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claim that nuclear weapons are vital shields for the planet. They claim that nuclear weapons are deterrents that prevent the world from breaking out in total war. Researchers are supporting this argument by declaring how nuclear weapons have been keeping peace. However‚ other researchers and scientists deny the effectiveness of nuclear weapons as deterrents and declare that nuclear weapons will lead the world into total devastation. Many people throughout the world state that nuclear weapons have
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Nuclear Energy as the Most Practical Alternative for Industrialized Countries in the Last Thirty Years Students: Nguyen Van Anh Le Thi Toan Instructor: Ho Quynh Giang Class: 4A11‚ English Department‚ Hanoi University Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Body 1. Arguments Solution to Global Energy Crises an Environmentally Friendly Energy 2. Counterarguments Potentially Fatal Risks and Catastrophes III. Conclusion Nuclear Energy as the Most Practical Alternative for
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Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation is a limitation of production such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The big five: United States‚ Britain‚ France‚ China‚ and former Soviet Union agreed to dismantle arsenals and signatory nations would not possess nuclear weapons (Conn). Although North Korea has become the world’s ninth nuclear power‚ they withdrew from the treaty in January 2003. Since then‚ North Korea processed enough plutonium for five nuclear bombs (Norris). America should and does
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