Resist the Atomic Menace
There are currently 110 working nuclear power plants in the United States today. The government claims that out of twenty-two years of operation, there has only been one mishap in the United States involving nuclear reactors, Three Mile Island located on an island 10 miles south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Yet core meltdowns have been known to occur at several reactor sites, including “the Experimental Breeder Reactor in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Westinghouse Testing Reactor, in Waltz Mill, Pennsylvania; Stationary Low Power Reactor, in Idaho Falls, Idaho; and Fermi 1, in Lagoona Beach, Michigan” (Against Nuclear Power). Since the near catastrophe at Three Mile Island in 1979, an exploration of government records revealed that there “have been more than 23,000 mishaps at nuclear plants in the United States” (Against Nuclear Power), an ever-increasing number. Plain and simple, nuclear power plants are dangerous. And despite their obvious drawbacks, the government still continues to offer billions of dollars in subsidies, money that could be put towards researching renewable sources of energy. One of the biggest problems with nuclear power is the potential for an accident. Contained inside a nuc
The drawbacks to the use of nuclear power are obvious. If we choose to look outside of the United States, the affects are the same. Take for example Chernobyl, the Ukrainian nuclear power plant that experienced a release of radioactive reactor components into the environment or the Arora Atomic Power Station near New Delhi, India, where a fire burned through the main and emergency power cables, very nearly causing a meltdown. Instead of devoting so much time and money to what could very well be the downfall of the human race, the population of Earth should abandon nuclear power and focus on renewable sources of energy, such as solar power, wind power, wave power, or biogas, a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide produced by bacterial degradation of organic matter that can be used as a fuel. Another major problem with nuclear power is its potential threat of global annihilation. As the ease with which a country can obtain the materials for building a nuclear power plant increases, so does the possibility that those materials can be used in the creation of nuclear warheads. In addition to the production of nuclear warheads by a country, the products and by-products of nuclear power can be stolen or bought by terrorists and radicals. As weapons, these radioactive substances can easily be released into the air, the water supplies, or simply used in
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