Benefits and Risks of Nuclear Power in California By Roger Dunstan Requested by Assembly Member Helen Thomson APRIL 2002 CRB 02-008 Benefits and Risks of Nuclear Power in California By Roger Dunstan ISBN NO. 1-58703-156-6 About the Author Roger Dunstan is an Assistant Director for the California Research Bureau. Acknowledgements Many people provided assistance in a paper such as this‚ but several deserve special mention. Trina Dangberg‚ Sheila Oliver‚ and Judy Hust
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Question 3 A nuclear power plant (NPP) make used of its nuclear power to generate electricity. The expression “nuclear power” is defined as a controlled release of energy by nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reactions (Nuclear Power‚ 2004‚ p. 2809). The world’s first exposure to nuclear power came with the detonation of two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 by the army of the United State of America (Nuclear Power‚ 2004‚ p. 2809). At that time‚ scientists believed
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Nuclear power is produced through the use of nuclear reactions to produce nuclear energy that can then be harnessed to generate heat and create superheated steam to drive turbines. The most common nuclear reaction is that of nuclear fission‚ which is the splitting of an atom’s nucleus into smaller nuclei. Nuclear reactions are incredibly energy dense and thus allow nuclear reactors to make a tremendous amount of electricity. There are only 61 nuclear power plants in the United States‚ but they account
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Recently‚ a client of mine bought real estate near Donald C. Cook Nuclear Generating Station‚ which is in Bridgman Michigan. Although‚ the property is six miles north of the nuclear power plant‚ the buyer decided that it was not an issue and bought the place. The property sits in a beautiful wooded area overlooking Lake Michigan with a cozy ranch‚ mile long driveway‚ and old hardwood trees. One would never notice there is a nuclear power plant down the street when sitting by the pond skipping stones
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Nuclear Power: A Burden or a Blessing? When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ Japan‚ the world was thrust into the atomic age. Nuclear power had become a reality. It promised to provide clean‚ efficient energy for centuries to come. Despite all of the promises‚ nuclear power has only been put into minimal use. Only a few of the nuclear plants that the government planned on building have actually been built. Some of the plants that were constructed have been shut down. Now‚ more
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KOODANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station currently under construction in Koodankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Project investment cost to India was estimated to be US$ 3.5 billion in a 2001 agreement. History An Inter-Governmental Agreement on the project was signed on November 20‚ 1988 by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The project remained in limbo for 10 years due
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will we use? Out of desperately‚ many have suggested nuclear power. Nuclear fission create heat by introducing a uranium rod into water; this process causes a neutron to splits a uranium atom in half to create heat‚ which then heats up the water to turn a turbine. In result‚ the turning of the turbine creates energy. Nuclear power plants
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Is It Time to Revive Nuclear Power? Twenty years ago‚ the worst nuclear plant accident in the nation occurred at the Three Mile Island plant. The nuclear industry has been waging a coordinated campaign to revive nuclear power in the United States. We are being told that nuclear energy is safe‚ clean (the answer to global warming) and an economical way to produce electricity. None of these claims withstand scrutiny. It is well known that nuclear power production creates the deadliest
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Nuclear power is complicated. A nuclear power plant provides energy that does not contribute to global warming. Climate concerns have seen a rise in the construction of new reactors to address growing demands of electricity worldwide. Currently the United States and Canada receive 20% of their electric power from nuclear plants. The rest of the world is at 6% but rising. The benefits drive the nuclear energy movement and continue to do so and the proponents of nuclear power see this as an indispensable
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I believe that "Nuclear energy is NOT the best way to meet the ever-increasing energy needs of the planet." We would like to define the term the energy needs‚ and in this debate it will only apply to the electricity energy needs of the planet. There are four main arguments that we would like to state. Firstly‚ the radioactive waste generated by nuclear power plants lasts FOREVER. It is a deadly legacy to give to our children and there is no safe place to store it. The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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