plutonium 2

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             complements the uranium fission process. With the continually decreasing supply of coal .
             and oil to power our nation, we need a substitute to complement our energy needs and .
             right now the best replacement is that of nuclear energy. At the moment there are one .
             hundred and ten nuclear power plants in the United States and they produce one-fifth of .
             the nations electricity. Nuclear energy has been proven to be the cheapest, safest, cleanest .
             and probably the most efficient source of energy. Nuclear power plants do not use as .
             much fuel as the plants burning coal and oil. One ton of uranium produces more energy .
             than several million tons of coal, and plutonium can produce much more energy than .
             uranium. Also the burning of coal and oil pollute our air and the last thing we need is more .
             pollution to worsen the greenhouse effect. Nuclear power plants cannot contaminate the .
             environment because they do not release any type of pollution. Plutonium can also be .
             recycled by using a enrichment process. This will produce even more energy. Coal and oil .
             can not be recycled. What is left by their uses is what has been contaminating our .
             atmosphere since the 1800's. You might ask how exactly is plutonium converted into an .
             energy source? Well it is obviously quite complicated to explain. Basically, power comes.
             from the fission process of an atom of the element and produces over ten million times the .
             energy produced by an atom of carbon from coal. One kilogram of plutonium consumed .
             for three years in a reactor can produce heat to give ten million kilowatt-hours of .
             electricity. This amount is enough to power over one-thousand Australian households.
             Presented with this information, it is only common sense that we should not depend upon .
             fossil fuels to take us into the 21st century. It is obvious that our future lies in the hands of .
             nuclear reactors and the use of plutonium.
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             The second major use for plutonium is for space exploration with its ability to .