Argumentative Essay: High Cost Of Nuclear Energy

Summer Writing 2k15 #2 2/5: 1st draft

Energy affects our lives in many ways and in nuclear energy, there’s a lot of drama. Nuclear energy has provided us with powerful and vigorous energy, but it also has had some…dramatic explosions. I am writing, believing that we should not use nuclear powers since the cons outweigh the pros. Nuclear energy is a wild and unpredictable stallion, which could explode at the slightest disturbance. Nuclear energy accidents are terrible, the environmental impact is not good, and the cost makes the government’s wallets bleed. Although nuclear energy has its benefits, the cons are just too much to handle. Let’s take a look at some accidents that have occurred through the ages.
Examples of some major accidents since 1952 are the Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Kyshtym had

terrible effects on the people living there and the environment. During Chernobyl, there was widespread health and environmental effects from the major release of radioactive material. During Fukushima and Kyshtym, there was the release of radioactive material and some countermeasures planned. The causes of these accidents were:
Chernobyl: Release of reactor core inventory.
Kyshtym: Explosion of a high activity waste tank.
Fukushima: Earthquake and tsunami cause cooling failure.
Imagine a giant mound of rubble, and half the city with cancer, hospitals are overflowing! It makes you rethink if some energy sources are worth the trouble.
Nuclear energy affects the environment as well as us. The effects are the following:
- Nuclear energy needs a lot of water for steam production and cooling. This affects fish and other aquatic life in the area due to loss of water.
- Heavy metals and salt build up in water used in power plant systems including nuclear plants. These pollutants, as well as the higher temperature of discharge water from the plant, can negatively affect water and the life there.
- About every 18 to 24 months, power plants and shut down and remove and replace the used uranium fuel the spent fuel at least most of its energy, as a result of fission process becoming radioactive waste.
It can be a chain reaction.

So it is basically a big nuclear reactor. Rimshot. As you can see this could offset the whole ecosystem. It is not worth it. The cost is gigantic as well.
To top it all, the cost of nuclear energy is enormous. Generally a large amount of time before blending it was glass and storing it in vast cooled, solid structures. The waste must be kept, observed, and watched to keep the materials from being stolen by someone who wants to use it for an undesirable purpose. Administrations and include materials cost money on top of expenses needed to put a plan together and makes it less than desirable to invest in. plants require permission from several international authorities and is normally opposed by people who live in the region. I think that this is a lot of trouble for energy.
So you have seen why I hate nuclear energy. The effects of it can be unimaginable if something goes wrong. I do not like nuclear energy since accidents are terrible, the environmental impact is not good, and the cost makes the government’s wallets bleed. So if you ever see energy sources and think it is amazing, ask yourself. “Is it worth the

trouble?”