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- The waste is hazardous and difficult to store.
- There is some potential danger in operating a nuclear power plant (cf. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island), but the principal disadvantage is the need to safely store the spent fuel for tens of thousands of years.
- With proper regulation, safety features, and common sense pretty much none. When you test a poorly designed reactor, lets say a light water graphite moderated reactor also know as an RBMK reactor (Chernobyl) under low power low coolant conditions with al of the safety features turned off things can happen. When you ignore what the computers when they say to shut down the reactor and keep it running (Three mile island) things happen. But if you need disadvantages:
- Radioactive Waste
- Higher level waste can be reprocessed into Plutonium either through the use of a reprocessing facility or can be prevent from being made by using a breeder reactor where the higher level waste is not made and enriched Plutonium is made instead.
- Proliferation of fissionable materials
- The problem with breeder reactors is also the reason why they are good.They produce more fuel but they produce more fuel this highly enriched fuel can be used to make nuclear weapons, dirty bombs, or be used in a nuclear reactor to make energy.
- There is a large safety risk, from accidents and from terrorists stealing the fuel/byproducts to make weapons of mass destruction, nuclear power plants cost a lot to start, the nuclear fuel is non renewable and there is only enough to last approx 70 years.
- Nuclear fuel is in fact renewable in so-called "breeder" plants. France uses them, though there are none in the US.
- Nuclear plants are quite expensive to build, but so are coal-powered plants of equivalent capacity. Several companies are working on low-capacity plants... enough to power a neighborhood or a small village... that would be much cheaper.
- One disadvantage not mentioned above is the problem of disposing of spent... but still radioactive... fuel.
Tiara Lebsack
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Nuclear energy is a useful source of power but has its disadvantages what is a disadvantage of nuclear energy?
it produces dangerous waste. apex
Advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power in India?
Advantage : Clean Energy Loads of Energy can be created in one single nuclear plant Disadvantage : Risky Waste Fuel Dangerous Lots of Safety Concerns
What energy is the energy that is stored in an atoms nucleus?
If it is stored in the nucleus, it must be nuclear energy.
Nuclear energy is energy?
Yes, nuclear energy is energy.
Where does nuclear energy come from to make renewable energy work?
Nuclear energy and renewable energy are not related. Renewable energy does not use nuclear energy.
Nuclear energy is a useful source of power but has its disadvantages what is a disadvantage of nuclear energy?
it produces dangerous waste. apex
What are the disadvantages of uranium energy?
Obtaining nuclear radioactive wastes
What are the disadvantages of Iran creating nuclear energy?
Producing weaponized uranium and nuclear material from which nuclear bombs can be built.
Adavntages and disadvantages for nuclear energy?
One advantage of nuclear energy is that it can produce far more power than other sources of energy including wind energy. One disadvantage of nuclear energy is the radioactive waste that is produced.
What are the disadvantages of building nuclear weapons and plants?
Well their are no disadvantages to nuclear plants, if your using them for nuclear power, as nuclear power is the safest type of energy in modern times. However disadvantages of nuclear weapons include well the ending of the planet, the possibility of it being stolen by terrorists or even it being spied on for another nation so it can create nuclear weapons.
Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages of nuclear energy?
I think so, but others disagree. It is a controversial issue.
Advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power in India?
Advantage : Clean Energy Loads of Energy can be created in one single nuclear plant Disadvantage : Risky Waste Fuel Dangerous Lots of Safety Concerns
What energy is the energy that is stored in an atoms nucleus?
If it is stored in the nucleus, it must be nuclear energy.
What are some advantages and disadvantages of nuclear reactors?
ADVANTAGES 1. releases large amounts of energy from small amounts of mass 2. very efficient 3. fuel lasts a long time 4. convert nuclear energy into thermal energy DISADVANTAGES 1. they are very expensive 2. they are hard to keep up 3. the waste is hard to get rid of
Nuclear energy is energy?
Yes, nuclear energy is energy.
What is it when energy is released through fission or fusion?
Nuclear energy
Is fusion nuclear energy or chemical energy?
Nuclear fusion produces nuclear energy
