Nuclear power
Nuclear power Pros and Cons, Advantages and disadvantages in overview. Pros and Cons List
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Workplaces
dangerous
provides a lot of energy
Nuclear waste
Efficient
Unregulated disposal of nuclear waste
cheap
Tschernobyl
apart from nuclear waste, there is no environmental pollution, e.g. from exhaust fumes
Fukushima
...What happened in Chernobyl and Fukushima was 100% due to human error and without nuclear power we would have to buy electricity from abroad.
Target for terrorist attacks
emissions have fallen due to the expansion of nuclear power
Radioactivity causes cancer
There is electricity
causes malformations of fetuses and infants (radiation mutation)
It is a safe clean energy source that can lead to CO2 neutrality and it is very safe.
It is dangerous
...It's good for the environment
Not really evective due to nuclear waste disposal
The radiation from the reactors does not reach the environment and more people have died from wind power than from nuclear power.
many people died from the waste
Good for the environment
Nuclear waste is hard to get rid of
There are the latest ways to dispose of nuclear waste. This works very well in the UK, for example.
...Nuclear power is a confident energy source that has potential for the future
It supplies a lot of energy and at the moment wind power, hydropower and all of these are simply not enough on their own to provide sufficient energy
New reactors, with higher safety standards, which are both efficient and cheap to produce and manufacture