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Nuclear energy does not rely on burning fossil fuels to generate electricity, which helps reduce the consumption of these limited resources. By using nuclear power as a clean alternative, we can preserve fossil fuels for other important uses such as transportation and heating.
Nuclear energy is the second largest source of energy after fossil fuels. It generates electricity through nuclear reactions, providing a significant portion of the world's energy needs.
If you use nuclear energy in place of fossil fuels, you are conserving the fossil fuel, that is reducing the amount you use.
extracting energy from nuclear fuels is more expensive than extracting energy from fossil fuels
Fuels can be broadly categorized into three types: fossil fuels, renewable fuels, and nuclear fuels. Fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, are derived from ancient organic matter and are the most commonly used energy sources. Renewable fuels include biomass, biofuels, solar, wind, and hydropower, which are sustainable and can be replenished naturally. Nuclear fuels, primarily uranium and plutonium, are used in nuclear reactors to generate energy through nuclear fission.
nuclear energy and burning fossil fuels to push turbines that make electricity. ************************************************* the two main sources are burning lots of fossil fuels and nuclear energy
With fossil fuels we burn them to produce heat. With nuclear fuel we produce a nuclear chain reaction in a reactor which produces heat. Using the heat to produce electricity is the same for both types of fuel.
Total energy as expressed in Einsteins equation E=mc2 reveals that they are identical because the masses are identical and c is a constant. With present technology you can extract more energy from a given mass of nuclear fuels (in a nuclear reactor) than the same mass of fossil fuel in a thermoelectric generating plant.
Answerfossil fuels, because nuclear energy will always be on earth no matter what.AnswerSince neither fossil fuels nor nuclear fuels are renewable, we will run out of both.Our supply of nuclear may outlast our supply of oil, but it will not outlast our supply of coal or oil shale.The good news is that technology is developing very quickly for renewable energy, so we will probably need neither fossil fuels nor nuclear in the long term.
It does not produce greenhouse gases, as fossil fuels do.
Both nuclear energy and fossil fuels are sources of energy that can be used to generate electricity. They both produce greenhouse gas emissions when used, contributing to climate change. Additionally, both nuclear energy and fossil fuels rely on non-renewable resources that are finite in quantity.