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How do you you feel nuclear energy should or shouldn't be used?
I believe nuclear energy is a very good energy source. Since we are running out of fossil fuels and our environment needs improvement, nuclear energy can meet these needs. Nuclear energy does not pollute, but it produces radioactive waste. This waste is taken care of in a safe way, not being exposed to people. If a person were to use nuclear energy for his or her whole life, the waste would be only one pound and would fit in a soda can; whereas with coal it would fill a line of coal cars from New York to California. And there was never an accident in nuclear energy that couldn't be prevented. Everything is extra safe.
What is the main resource of nuclear energy?
Uranium-238 is used in nuclear reactors.It produces energy by the nucleus being split by a proton hence nuclearreactor.
What businesses use nuclear energy?
Nuclear fission refers to the splitting of an atomic nucleus. It occurs naturally and can be induced in order to release energy. Nuclear fission provides the energy released by nuclear weapons as well as the energy used to produce energy at nuclear power plants.
What can nuclear energy do to you?
Being exposed to nuclear energy could do many things depending on how much exposure Burns Radiation Poisioning Cancers Defects Death
How does nuclear energy get from where it is found to the nuclear power plants?
You are under a misapprehension about 'finding' nuclear energy. The uranium is found in a natural ore, mined and refined, and then made into nuclear fuel in the form of fuel rods. At this stage there is no nuclear energy being released, except for a small amount of natural radioactivity which is trivial. It is only in a nuclear reactor that a nuclear chain reaction is produced and energy is released because U-235 is being fissioned. This appears as heat in the fuel rods which is then used in a normal power plant steam cycle.
What happened before the 1950s that would become instrumental in the development of nuclear energy in the future?
The atom was split successfully in early 1940s. In 1945, nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan and thereafter nuclear energy began being used for local energy.
Why is nuclear energy dangerous?
It is absolutely the safest form of energy generation that we have. The perception of nuclear power being dangerous is created because we are also capable of making nuclear weapons. The concepts though are very different.
A disadvantage of atomic energy is the?
The nuclear waste problem is far from being solved.
When a stove is being heated does it produce nuclear energy?
no. what would give you that idea?
What did the scientist of centuries ago believe was the fuel for the Sun.Why did they think this?
Scientists centuries ago believed that a nuclear reaction which was very large would be capable of producing the energy of the sun, they thought this because when they experimented with nuclear reactions and measuring the energy produced the reaction of coal not burning long without being consumed.
How does the sun get its energy?
nuclear fusion
How impossible to use nuclear energy?
Using nuclear energy is possible, and in fact being done. It has been done since the 1940s. The first nuclear electric plant came on line some time after that, but I worked at one in the 1980s.
