The Controversy: The Role Of Nuclear Energy In The World

Throughout the world, countries are leaning towards nuclear energy due to the amount of energy it can produce with very little resources. This topic is worth investigating since energy is basically a must, now in the 21st century. It is now considered an essential to have energy in our lives to maintain our standards of living. We have gone to many different sources of energy other than nuclear energy such as coal, solar, wind, oil and more, but many of those energy source have flaws too. Some sources of energy will reach the peak of their production due to resources and will eventually fall, others pollute the environment just like nuclear energy and some just don’t produce enough energy for us to fully rely on them. Many countries needed a new source of energy since …show more content…
By building nuclear reactors which contains the nuclei, the large of energy released from it creates steam which drives machines to generate electric power. Nuclear energy is capable of producing energy equivalent to 3 million pounds of coal from 1 pound of uranium. however, after the nuclear plant disasters that happened in Chernobyl in Ukraine and Fukushima in Japan led people to a controversy on nuclear energy and questions such as whether nuclear energy and reactors can solve the world’s energy issues or does it pose to much of a risk and should be taken out as a choice of energy. After looking through the issue more, I have came up with the question: To what extent do the benefits of nuclear energy outweigh the possible risks it has on the environment? After doing research, my position in this controversy is pro nuclear. I believe that the benefits of nuclear energy are higher than the threats and after looking at statistics, it had shown that other sources of energy causes the same or more damage to our environment with less good