Nuclear Power Introduction

    30 years ago, nuclear energy was a futuristic technology, the subject of experimentation and far fetched ideas. But today, America's second largest source of electrical power is nuclear power. More than 110 nuclear power plants supply more energy than oil, natural gas, or hydroelectricity. Nuclear power has saved American consumers such as us $44 billion. Since American's electricity system is interconnected, all Americans get some electricity from nuclear power.

    Nuclear power is the world’s largest emission free energy. They produce no air pollutants such as sulfur, or greenhouse gases. The use of nuclear power keeps the air clean, preserve the Earth’s climate, avoid ground-level ozone, and acid rain. Nuclear power has important suggestions for our national security. The inexpensive nuclear power combined with the fuel cell technology, could decrease the purchase of foreign oil drastically.

        About 20% of the energy we use is from nuclear power. Not one death or accident has occurred by nuclear production in the U.S. But one the other hand about 10 thousand Americans die during coal mining. The nuclear power industry generates about 2,000 tons of solid waste. Similarly, the coal fueled power plants produce about 100,000,000 tons of ash and sludge annually. To make it worse, this ash has poisons such as mercury and nitric oxide. These 2000 tons of waste is not a big problem. Reprocessing of nuclear fuel, will enable us to turn the vast  majority of waste into energy.