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4 Should contries invest in nuclear energy?

Countries prefer sustainable enegy rather than nuclear energy because nuclear energy has many risks in comparison with their advantages.

In today's world, countries need large amounts of energy because of reasons like developing tecnology, production and manufacturing. Some people believe in using nuclear energy as a solution to these growing demands. However, some other are of the opinion that besides benefits, nuclear energy has a lot of threats, so my suggestion will be using sustainable energy sources instead of nuclear energy.

Nuclear energy has many advantages. The first advantages is related to power. Nuclear energy is more powerful source than other sources such as coal or hydroelectricity. In order to produce energy as energy which are created in a nuclear energy stations per hour, a hydroelectricity stations have to work five full days. The second advantages is about price. Constructing and opearating a nuclear energy station is relatively cheaper than constructing and operating other energy sources. For example, operating a mine costs 50.000 $ per/hour while opearting a nuclear energy station costs 10.000 $ per/hour. In other words, operating a mine is five times more expensive than operating a nuclear energy station. In brief, nuclear energy can be preferred to other energy sources because of two benefits which are its strength and cheapness.

On the other hand, nuclear energy is dangerous for people and their enviroment in two ways. Firtsly, nuclear energy stations can blow up despite all systematic controls. Chernobyl explosion is the only one example in the history for that. In 1986, the explosion of The Chernobyl Nuclear Energy Station led to the death of ten thousands of SSCB citizen. Moreover, more than 50.000 people all arround the country became cancer because of that explosion. Even today, Chernobyl area cannot be habitable. Secondly, radioactive contaminants produced by the nuclear energy stations can seriously harm enviroment. Needless to say that radioactive waste is extremely dangerous for nature and unfortunely nuclear energy stations create a large amount of them. If plants are infected by by the radioactive garbage, they will die and this situation leads to illness and scarcity for both animals and people. Not growing any plants in areas where nuclear energy stations like Kashiwazaki Kariwa and Obninsk are located is a good example for it. Because the stations which create nuclear energy expose extreme risks to life on earth, I think countries should ponder about using sustainable energy sources.

To sum up, although nuclear energy has some advantages such as strenght and cheapness, it is not safe enough yet. If people prefer nuclear energy after all these risks instead of nature-friendly sources, it may be too late for the future of nature. That is why countries should choose sustainable energy sources rather than nuclear energy.





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