Nuclear Energy Persuasive Speech Outline

In April of 1986 at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the operators of the power plant decided to run the plant in low power without proper precautions. This drastic human error caused history’s first commercial nuclear accident that caused fatalities due to radiation. Cases of 7,000 individuals being diagnosed with thyroid cancer were linked to the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, so far leading 4,056 deaths, 46 being from the direct radiation and 4,000 from thyroid cancer. The area of Chernobyl also was massively affected negatively. The area is now densely in ruin with radiation which can be fatal to the life exposed to large amounts of it. Other cases of nuclear backlash is the correlation of nuclear weapons testing causing

I would like to address the current issue of nuclear energy and its immensely severe backlash to our environment and safety. I state that nuclear energy’s usage and continuous utilization should be terminated because of its horrific recoil. Nuclear energy’s risks and cons outweigh the benefits it provides. The use of nuclear energy in the united states should be terminated because of its critical environmental backlash, tremendous costs, a target for terrorism, and and history of

However, the nuclear waste leftover from the plants is radioactive and takes thousands of years to breakdown and decompose. This burden of a waste was planned to be blasted into outer space or entombed deep into a mountain, but it was rejected by most individuals. The big problem of nuclear waste is that it can be used for weapons and highly dangerous, as dangerous as the contamination released from an accidental nuclear meltdown. There is also a massive risk of transporting and handling nuclear waste because of its tedious care and sensitivity. Nuclear waste exposure is also very bad for the people around as for example a case in Pennsylvania shows most children around there ended up having baby teeth carrying strontium-90. An element containing a nuclear isotope leading to children having a higher risk of cancer. The children obtained these radioactive teeth because of exposure of radiation from forms of living near power plants, close to weapons testing areas, and sites containing radioactive materials. Would you want to have a whole generation of children in even bigger risk to cancer? As you can tell, nuclear energy is a danger to the environment we live in, a risk for usage of terrorism, its high costs, and its tedious attraction to accidents and