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NUCLEAR ENERGY IS PART OF THE SOLUTION (Other Alternatives cannot not…
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
• 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
Nuclear Energy is clean
• 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
Nuclear Energy is Necessary
• 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
Other Alternatives cannot not provide for all future power needs
• 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