NUCLEAR ENERGY IS PART OF THE SOLUTION
Nuclear Energy is Safe
• Further developments in modular reactors show promise in bringing down the cost of opening a nuclear power plant while maintaining a high standard of safety
Nuclear Energy is clean
Nuclear Energy is Necessary
Other Alternatives cannot not provide for all future power needs
• The problem of nuclear waste is not a technical one, It is a political one
• There are several sites ideal for disposing of nuclear waste that exist today
• Finland is the only country actively constructing a site for long term disposal
• Nuclear waste is now stored safely on site
• Nuclear disasters that occurred at Chernobyl and Fukushima included, Nuclear remains the safest form of energy per unit of energy produced
• Hundreds of Nuclear reactors power the US Navy Ships and Submarines , operating without incident
• Today, electricity consumed when other renewable resources are not producing primarily comes from power plants that burn carbon-based fuels
• Nuclear energy can fill the gap, preventing the burning of fossil fuels with the technology that exists today
• Nuclear power can be produced constantly, and scaled for the needs of a community
• France, the second greenest country in the world, uses nuclear power for over 75% of its present needs
• Countries like Germany, who closed their nuclear power plants, cannot produce enough energy without the importation of nuclear energy from France or reopening fossil fuel burning plants
• Nuclear power has the lowest carbon footprint of any form of energy today (including wind and solar)
• Nuclear energy has not reached its full technological potential
• New technologies that are not being exploited in the field could potentially massively reduce the amount of waste and fuel required
• Today, 55% of the carbon free energy of the United States comes from Nuclear power
• Wind Energy and solar energy have intermittency issues
• Wind energy and solar energy have transmission issues
• Wind and solar energy require vast tracks of land and maintenance infrastructures, despite producing relatively little energy per unit of space
• When the sun doesn’t shine and it isn’t windy, the world still consumes electricity
• Many forms of carbon free energy are incredibly diffuse
• Diffuse forms of energy are very difficult to concentrate and are even more difficult to transfer
• Intermittency cannot be solved, only accounted for with power storage
• Present battery technology prevents power storage on the scale necessary to use these sources alone
• “Perfect” solutions do not exist for this problem