Nuclear Energy is the Future An Argumentative essay Presented to Dr. Marianne Jennifer M. Gaerlan Department of English and Applied Linguistics De La Salle University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for ENGLCOM Term 2‚ AY 2011-2012 09 December 2011 Do you believe that something small can power a country? A pound of Uranium has the capacity to produce the same amount of energy of 3 million pounds of fossil fuel. That ’s how powerful nuclear energy is‚ generating so
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in efficient‚ clean‚ high out-put energy production. As a civilization we need not focus on what the past has held for energy production but rather what the present and future hold for us. Two key options are the long lasting‚ high out-put but environmentally hazardous option which is nuclear fission (nuclear power) and the safe but potential ground water contamination hazard which is geothermal energy. This paper will point out strictly fact based information on both forms of energy and which one
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fission‚ plutonium-239 is created by generating electricity from nuclear sources. Contrary to popular belief‚ nuclear energy is hazardous and threatening to health. The use of nuclear energy should be banned as evidenced by the number of accidents‚ health effects‚ and global impact. Countless nuclear power plant accidents have been occurring quite frequently since its invention. Some accidents have even been underestimated‚ because the nuclear industry does not want the people to know about how dangerous
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Future of Nuclear Energy- Thorium According to the United Nations‚ we are expecting the world population to reach approximately nine billion in 2050. Because of this rapid increase in world population‚ humans have been looking for cheap‚ safe‚ and environmentally friendly energy sources to satisfy the population’s necessities. For the past few decades‚ the human population has been using coal‚ oil‚ and gas as our energy source‚ but we quickly found out that was not enough. One of the other
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the UN Charter was authorized by a majority of the 51 Member countries. The main purpose of the United Nations is to bring all nations of the world together to work for peace and development‚ based on the principles of justice‚ human dignity and the well being of all people. However‚ the UN peacekeepers have to face many problems in order to maintain world peace such as‚ non-agreeing members of Security Council‚ high maintenance cost‚ unwillingness of the members to intervene in another nations problem
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Nuclear Energy and the Environment In our society‚ nuclear energy has become one of the most criticized forms of energy by the environmentalists. Thus‚ a look at nuclear energy and the environment and its impact on economic growth. Lewis Munford‚ an analyst‚ once wrote‚ "Too much energy is as fatal as too little‚ hence the regulation of energy input and output not its unlimited expansion‚ is in fact one of the main laws of life." This is true when dealing with nuclear power. Because
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Nuclear power uses unstable elements like uranium. Uranium is constantly going through a process called nuclear decay‚ which means the atom is splitting apart over a period of time‚ measured in half-lives. This is why it is the element of choice for nuclear power plants. Uranium is special because it can go through what is called induced fission. Induced fission is when a free neutron is fired at an atom (like uranium). The atom will absorb the neutron‚ and immediately becomes unstable and splits
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Living During the Nuclear Threat HIS 145 Living under the threat of nuclear war would have been a very scary and unimaginable event‚ especially in the 1950s. Terrorism is another very dangerous threat‚ but it is different in its own. Living under the threat of nuclear war was a scary time for Americans. The media had to curve the tension people thought by making a television cartoon to enhance people to think they were save as long as they followed a few rules. Society in that period
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WORLD PEACE & SECURITY WORLD PEACE World peace is an ideal of freedom‚ peace‚ and happiness among and within all nations and/or people. World peace is an idea of planetary non-violence by which nations willingly cooperate‚ either voluntarily or by virtue of a system of governance that prevents warfare. The term is sometimes used to refer to a cessation of all hostility among all individuals. For example‚ World Peace could be crossing boundaries via human rights‚ technology‚ education‚ engineering
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Nuclear weapons are the deadliest weapon ever created by the human being‚ “Western newspapers struggled to explain how thousands of American‚ British and Canadian scientists had managed to harness the power of the sun to such deadly effect” ‚ becoming weapons of mass annihilation. Though‚ do they provide us security? It’s true that they can provide nuclear deterrence‚ but can they actually physically protect us against a nuclear attack? The answer is no. Thus‚ possessing them doesn’t make us any
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