Energy and our Planet - a Look at Nuclear Power

The bilinnia of year have been spent to build upvariety of condition – age, exposure, metabolism-
protective mechanism of the environ-sphere thatcreate genetic damage or cancer.
support our planet- the ocean, the fist creation ofNow the fundamental question is the dabbling into
oxygen, and ozone , the breathing out all of thenuclear worth the danger? Does worth it for
earth growing cover of green plants.community to regard death as a reasonable risk in
Today ,what have has it become of human in basingreturn for some suppose good in quite clear? Any
a larger part of our energy supply upon atomiccarelessness, any casualness, any calculus based upon
energy is bringing down to earth the power thatinward- looking national advantage and prestige or a
would have never permitted any kind of organic lifequick profit gained by some smartly turned
to develop on this planet . Even thus the firstcommercial deal is utterly unthinkable in this context.
generation of this fire was accidental, the firstTime is actually calling for us to seize to make simple
intention was nevertheless an act of cruelty .besidecalculation of gain or convenience, but to confront
this, we have forgotten with an uneasiness born ofour survival and tat of our children and grandchildren
the sense of sacrilege that the first use of thisand whole human race.
dangerous fire end up wiping out two cities, withoutCommunities need to apply common sense to more
care for individual guilt, or innocent , man or woman ,detail issues. Communities should protest that closed
you or aged . the building of atomic technology hasto nuclear station should protest, because nuclear
was never due to compulsion of war but the fear ofleak of lethal radio activities (whose spreading in all
energy depletion , but today the development isdirection is quite fast) to an urban region or
hazardous to all of us in a new way including creationpopulation could lead disaster even point form
of risk of reversible damage to mankind’sdegradation over years. Community that already has
genetic inheritance.nuclear power plant should demand the right to set
Prospect of peaceful nuclear power generation:monitoring sytem to lower dose and contaminated
Energy released from fusion – plant in thisrate. Community should demand right to be informed
generation are using the same processes used forabout new technology deployment and measures for
the first atomic bomb –here only one percent ofexisting system.
the uranium oxide is used up, it has the risk that theNow I will make a brief quantitative summary under
whole chain reaction will end in an uncontrolledtechnical- economic- social and political (dominate
released of radioactivity is offset by insertion ofmost) platform
absorbent elements which slow down the reactionDesign =plant size (-), power (-) since large fixed
and the limitation of this process is the scarcity ofmass mc
U235. The breeder reactor-This process bypass 1Production= (-) more complex
percent use of uranium oxide up to 80 percent-Operations= maintenance and repair (-), no refueling
exploitation rate, thus here we have advantage of(+), does not need oxygen (+)
fuel , the real cost of nuclear program depends onEconomics = capital (-), revenue (-), wage (-)
the installation and safeguard . The fusion reactor-thisSocial = owner, crew, health (-)
involve the transfer to earth of the sun processes,Political = national (-), accident (-), prestige (+),
the vast release of energy achieved by the fusing ofmilitary (+)
nuclei within the superheated hydrogen plasma of theYou might wonder why there are no nuclear ship
sun’s core. Here the fact is that the technical– there was, the first one that was built (m.v.
difficulty in term of containment of huge thermalsavanna) was rejected in every port of the world,
release is still enormous.end up in a museum.
These are systems let us look at the advantages:We have already made error regarding air and water
· Fission reactors or so called light- water cooledas free goods and have, if we have to treat the risk
system are less pollutant and they have competitiveof rising cancer, genetic mutation we may get more
cost.power and pay more for safety at the expense of
· The breeder rectors are even more economical,degenerating population. In any case, it does not
but full of uncertainty and there is ongoing researchmake much difference from military insanities of
on the technology.multifold nuclear overkill and all the atomic gadgetry
Lets us look at the hazardsof mass killing from which a recognizable human
Both fission and fusion provide high thermal pollutionspecies will hardly survive. It important to let go this
– here they provide no advantage overdestructive temptation, those who have it should
conventional plants. Fission and fusion posed problemdestroy it and those who plan to have to should
of radio activities – even thus they say theyforget about. It is only with love, establishing loyalty,
make effort to contain the entire radioactivity givenand trust respect, justice can we us nuclear energy,
off during nuclear generation with hermetically sealedthe situation of the planet with misplaced trust here
containers. A lot of seepage occurs during storage,and there has complicated energy issue. It is true we
transport, in the cooling water, in release gases, inhave 6 billion inhabitant of this planet and we need
the cleaning of fuel elements and disposal. Problem ofenergy, the fossil is envisage to be depleting , thus
disposal- most radioactive materials have half life ofto keep 10 billion people alive in this planet , atomic
100 years , disposal cost a lot , and even where toenergy seem to be favorable likely answer, but yet
dispose is a big treat to the environment the is nothe disadvantages supersede the advantages .
sink on this planet. Workers and community exposureHowever, we still other options ort alternatives - we
to radiation – the noxious nature of thelarge reserve of coal than can last for another
radioactive material has fundamental difficulties thatbilinium.
there is no safe threshold of radioactive under a wide