Central Argument Against Nuclear Waste

The central argument of the film was not explicit, meaning there were a couple arguments that linked together. The main argument was that nuclear power is not as terrifying of an energy source as it is perceived to be. Many of the people interviewed in the film were very against nuclear power, however, once they saw and analyzed the facts their view quickly changed. The secondary argument, which was made at the end of the documentary, was that the next generation will understand the environmental change and will put nuclear in the correct context. They will understand that nuclear energy is a crucial source of energy for the future.
This argument is effective mostly due to the fact that the film used environmentalists who were previously against

The film touched on the sheer amount of waste that was produced and how the waste was being stored. Specifically, they mentioned that all the fuel rods that have been disposed of since the first nuclear power plant began in the United States, would only fill up a football filled if stacked three meters high. In continuation of the talk about the amount of waste being produced, the documentary talked about this waste can and will be used by the fourth generation of reactors as a source of fuel. The storage of the waste did not provide any interesting fact to help sway the argument besides the standard fact that the waste containers are stored near the plants and are monitored to ensure that no radiation is leaking from the

With that being said, there are always a few crucial components that are going to be missing from a film. In particular, it was stated in the film that there has not been a single death from the construction of commercial nuclear energy in the United States. Even though this may be true, it only stated commercial nuclear energy so it does not account for potential deaths in military energy plants. Additionally, we are all bathed in radioactivity, so radiation is not dangerous in an everyday sense. The problem I have with this statement is that an exact number of the amount of radiation we take in every day was not given in this film. I understand that it is different amounts in different areas in the world and increases with altitude, however, we should have an exact number available. It was also said that the spent fuel is reused again and again until the end of plant life. Even though the spent fuel is reused many times, it is only used until it is still fissionable and once it is not fissionable it becomes waste so it is never completely used. Lastly, Yucca mountain was an experiment to store nuclear waste for tens of thousands of years. The problem with this experiment is that we do not know what the future will be like that far away and we do not want people in the future to