Nuclear_Power_Uses

Nuclear Power Uses Nuclear Power Is nuclear energy clean energy' Are its benefits greater than its risks' One of the basic characteristics of our "modern" societies is the usage of various products/goods/services that are involved to our lives. We can think hundreds of such goods that were not used before and we are using them today in order to satisfy our wants and to meet our needs: from walkman to cars, from computers to bank machines. Of course, there are thousands of businesses and manufacturers that supply all these products/services and they all require energy to work. Can we imagine our "modern" world without electricity' Can we imagine it, without the kind of energy that produces electricity' Purpose of this text is to examine one basic source of energy-nuclear energy. This text will discuss advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power. We will examine the basic points about nuclear energy and we will compare them to the usage of other energy sources. But, what do we mean by nuclear energy' Nuclear energy refers to the energy that we can obtain if we split atoms. Atoms have neutrons, protons (both in nucleus) and electrons (around nucleus). If nucleus breaks up, huge amount of energy is released. This procedure is nuclear, energy, power, radiation, plants, environment, electricity, sources, repository, people, fuels, exposure, dioxide, rems, fossil, world, using, source, nucleus, water, waste, various, usage, uranium, tons, time, serious, fuel, fission, clean, cause, carbon, burning, workers, without, turbines