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Advantages include:

  • There are no green-house gasses released, meaning nuclear energy has no effect on the enhanced green-house effect (global warming)
  • Nuclear energy is extremely efficient and produces a large amount of electricity.
  • Nuclear energy does not require fossil fuels, such as coal or oil, to be burnt, meaning that nuclear energy can continue to be produced when fossil fuels become even more scarce than they are as of now.
  • Nuclear energy is dependable and will generate power quietly in a very small footprint.
  • A piece of fuel the size of a dime is all that is needed to power an aircraft carrier for twenty plus years. The waste element can be very tiny.
  • There are far fewer mining accidents in Uranium mines. The over environmental affect of mining is reduced
  • In terms of overall safety, even when taking Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and the Japanese disaster, nuclear has a better record of safety than fossil fuel alternatives.
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