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"What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideos danger of nuclear power." -John Cheever.

My project is on the poewr of nuclear energy itself. Nuclear energy is thrown around alot lately, and is usually a cause of debate. But what is nuclear energy? What are some concerns people have with it, and why arent more contries using it? What is GOOD about it? These are the kinds of questions i hope to answer. And, maybe educate you in nuclear energy and a bit of Pop-culture from the 90's too. FIrst of all, nuclear energy is usualy always fission. Fission occurs when a giant machine spits an atom of an unstable element into anouther unstable element, causing them to hit, and fracture. This releases alot of energy that was yerning to be free. This energy is released in the form of three electrons being spit out which goes on to break up more unstable atoms, and the atom being split. This energy is usually kept in a shell, where the energy is forced throw pathways into a generator where it can be captured and distributed as electrciity.

Now, people have alotof concerns with nuclear energy. First off, its dangerous. No way around it, dealing with these kinds of reactions are very dangerous. We are basically ripping the foundation of the universe in two every time we set off this reaction. The kind of energy that is released, if released improperly, could cause a sevre reaction. a reaction, such as an explosion. an Explosion would mean that the nuclear fuel would be released, and a cloud of radioactive rain would form and all the plants and life where the toxic rain spreads would die. (chernoble) This is one of the worst outcomes. Also, nuclear power generates alot of toxic waste, this toxic waste cannot be disposed as normal waste as it does not decay easily and is VERY harmful to the enviorment.

More countries are not using it because, clearly there are very high risks involved in this kind of power. They can much more easily find oil, coal, solar, or wind power. And the fuel for these kinds of plants is very rare and expensive. Not to mention the opertunity cost of building a powerplant, it takes alot just to build one then you need to buy the fuel, thats alot of cash. All that for anouther source of energy that produces toxic waste? Why bother.

Well, besides the toxic waste, its actually pretty clean. Its not as harmful to the ozone and atmosphere as say oil or coal. And, it produces alot of bang for its buck, the reaction in a nuclear power plant is enormas and can power many buildings and factories. People clearly want a clean burning efficient power system, but this one comes at a high price as we have seen time and time again in the past. Still, its a better use of the nuclear capabilities than weapons. We'v all seen it. Nuclear powers been in almost everything. From the T.V show that has men saving the world from a nuclear holocaust, to homer simpson driving to work. But, for the pop culture of this article, im going to go into a more younger generations pop culture. There once was a videogame, called Starcraft. And in this videogame was a weapon you could use, that was the fear of all the nations of the world during the cuban missle crisis. the dropping of a nuclear bomb. In this decade old video game you could drop a nuclear warhead, and eradicate anything in its path. For a pop culture quote, one that echos in every video gamers head as one of his deepest fears while playing against the Terran, i need to mention "Nuclear Launch Detected". When that sound hits your ears, you know you need to act quickly. Do or die.

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