What are the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear energy?
Nuclear fission is used by nuclear power plants to create electricity, and uranium is the most widely used fuel for nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is also released as a result of nuclear fusion. The release of nuclear energy can be controlled or uncontrolled. Nuclear energy makes just as much if not more green house gases as a fuel oil or coal power facility. Your have to take the ore out the ground (which we having to dig deeper and deeper for), refine, transport it in secure containers under guard, and house it when it is waste. Nuclear energy is clean, largely safe (with new technologies), and very low cost (after the plant is built). But nuclear energy is not renewable – it relies on nuclear fuel which must be mined out of the earth, much like coal. Some people consider nuclear energy to be green because it does not produce carbon dioxide. Nuclear energy, at present supplying 20 per cent of our electricity, provides a reliable, safe, cheap, almost limitless form of pollution-free e
