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How can a short answer describe this. Peoples opinions vary from outright opposition no matter what, to enthusiastic acceptance. Suggest you run a poll among all the people you can find to ask.
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Would you feel safe living within 5 miles of a nuclear power plant Why or why not?
No. If there is a disaster in a nuclear plant - and those DO happen now and then - this can affect populations hundreds, or even thousands, of kilometers from the power plant.
How would you feel if your town wanted to build a nuclear power plant very close to your home?
I would want them to build it somewhere else, but the same would apply to any type of power plant or industrial plant
Where is nuclear energy usually found?
Nuclear energy is usually found in nuclear power stations. Countries that have a number of operating stations include the USA, Canada, UK, France, Japan, and Russia. Some other countries have one or two stations.
How Has Nuclear Power Influenced Society?
That's a very broad question that sounds like an essay question from Junior High. Nuclear power has offered society the potential to produce essentially unlimited amounts of electricity using a technology that few of the users understand. When the majority of people hear "nuclear power" they immediately think of nuclear weapons, Hiroshima, Chernobyl, TMI, and general holocaust. They do not think "hot water, steam generator, spinning turbine, and radioactive decay" and they do not recognize that every technological advance has advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of nuclear power to generate electricity compared to coal, is that there is significantly less disturbance to the earth in the mining of the fuel, there are no products of combustion released to the atmosphere, the volume of the waste produced is orders of magnitude less and completely controlled, and the radioactivity of the spent fuel will eventually decay to harmless levels. Further, the spent fuel can be reprocessed to recover the useable material and reuse it in new fuel. The disadvantages of the present generation of nuclear power plants is the complexity of the design which leads to over engineering of the systems and components. More components in the design means that there are more components to fail. The redundancy of separate trains of safety systems assures tht the fuel remains cooled however the numbers of failures fosters the image that the design isn't safe. The media that discusses nuclear power tends to speak in absolutist terms such as "could there be a reactor fuel melt down?" The answer is "yes" with a probability that can be calculated based on the probability of failure of different pieces of equipment. That failure probability tends to be in the 10E-6 range or less, meaning that the string of failures needed to arrive at a fuel melt will happen once every 10E6 years (that's 1,000,000 years). This is not an easy concept to grasp, so the path of least resistance for the media is to not explain it. It's easier to ask an open-ended question and cut to commercial. It could be argued that nuclear power really hasn't influenced society much at all in that most of the population doesn't know or care where their electricy comes from so long as the lights come on when the switch is thrown. People who live far from a nuclear plant can afford to oppose the technology since they don't have to think about it beyond the abstract. Those people who live close to a plant frequently learn to appreciate it for the good jobs that the site provides and the clean and generally reliable electricity it delivers. There are a few pro-nuclear web sites which can provide that point of view. Nuclear Is Our Future (NIOF) has links to other sites which can provide additional information. Pay particular attention to John Cameron and his theories on radiation exposure.
How does it make you feel to know that most of the nuclear weapons in the Soviet and US arsenals remain ready for use even in the post-Cold War era?
Actually this is false most of the Cold War era nuclear weapons have been destroyed.At the peak of the Cold War the U.S. had about 10,000 strategic and 20,000 tactical nuclear weapons and the USSR had about 10,000 strategic and 30,000 tactical nuclear weapons.Following the signing of START both sides agreed to destroy all tactical nuclear weapons and reduce strategic nuclear weapons slowly over a period of time.At this time both the U.S. and Russia have about 3,500 strategic nuclear weapons each and no tactical nuclear weapons (although some people say that Russia secretly maintains about 1,000 tactical nuclear weapons).So, from a peak of about 70,000 nuclear weapons during the Cold War to about 7,000 nuclear weapons now, only about 10% of the weapons then available still remain ready for use.
How did Hamilton feel about the power and the common people?
how did Alexander Hamilton feel about political power and common power?
How do the Japanese people feel about the nuclear bombings now?
They feel not too bad but some real want REVENGE
How did hamilton feel about the political power and the common people?
how did alexander hamilton feel about political power and common power?
How did hamilton feel about political power and common people?
how did Alexander Hamilton feel about political power and common power?
How did hamilton feel about political power the common people?
how did Alexander Hamilton feel about political power and common power?
Would you feel safe living within 5 miles of a nuclear power plant Why or why not?
No. If there is a disaster in a nuclear plant - and those DO happen now and then - this can affect populations hundreds, or even thousands, of kilometers from the power plant.
Why does Korea use nuclear energy?
Because nuclear is the least expensive and cleanest form of energy there is currently available. We have over regulated this power source in the United States to the point of exclusion. We do so at our own peril and expense. Most other countries would not even think of listening to fringe groups in the manner we do, as a country. Without Nuclear power, we pollute more and do more damage. All in the name of feel good politics of the fringe groups.
How does the community feel about nuclear energy?
That depends on the community. Most of France, for example, welcomes nuclear energy and that country gets about 80% of their electricity from nuclear. New York city, on the other hand, fears and despises the Indian Point nuclear power station even though they use the power and look for more.
Why is nuclear weapon developing even people know it is devastating?
Nuclear weapon is a such a incredible developement weapon of a country.It is most precious weapon for defeating in a war and can destruct huge area and can take life of people it make feel shock of look, power,destruction.In wwll it show the strength of chemistry.
Why do people feel that development of human cloning is the same as the development of nuclear weapons?
I don't see that they do.
Will they rebulid the twin towers?
Not currently, alot of people feel it is disrespectful to rebuild the twin towers.
How do people from Ancient China feel about education?
I'm sorry, but the people from Ancient China are currently deceased, so their feelings are unreportable.
