Nuclear Power Is Too Dangerous and Should Be Phased Out

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Just a few years ago there was a significant catastrophic nuclear failure. This failure caused huge amounts of radioactive materials to be released into the environment. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster quickly became the largest nuclear incident since the 1986 Chernobyl accident while both have affected the environment immensely with radiation. Due to the potential safety issues, the risk to the environment, and the dangers of nuclear power, the use of nuclear facilities must be called off to prevent meltdowns and irreparable damage to the surrounding area. One reason why nuclear power must be eliminated is due to the fact that it does not justify the danger it creates. According to Malik Imran’s blog entitled “Nuclear Power Not Sufficient Enough?” as published on the 4urtech.blogspot, “ . . .[N]uclear energy with current efficiency levels isn’t enough . . .there needs to be much more research efforts, mainly to improve efficiency in order to make [a] nuclear energy solution capable to replace fossil fuels.” Since nuclear energy will never be a good substitute for fossil fuels, it is clear that its production needs to be abandoned completely. Others agree that efficiency is an issue. “[H]e considers much more efforts should be mainly done to improve nuclear power efficiency . . .and switch to fuel enrichment based on gas centrifuge technology, which is more energy-efficient than current gaseous diffusion methods” (Imran). Clearly there is something more efficient to be used than trying to make nuclear energy work. According to Tiffa Nur Latifa, author of “Nuclear Power Generation: Efficient or Not? Based on Pareto Efficiency” as published on Tales of The Breeze website: Compared to other energy source[s] . . .the approxima... ... middle of paper ... ...ailing." Reuters. N.p., 14 Aug. 2013. Web. 30 Dec. 2013. Latifa, Tiffa N. "Nuclear Power Generation: Efficient of Not? Based on Pareto Efficiency." Tales of The Breeze. N.p., 4 July 2011. Web. 30 Dec. 2013. Mackenzie, Debora. "Briefing: How Nuclear Accidents Damage Human Health." NewScientist. N.p., 15 Mar. 2011. Web. 30 Dec. 2013. Narmasen, Gary. "Nuclear Power Is Too Dangerous and Should Be Phased Out." voices.yahoo.com. N.p., 19 Sept. 2013. Web. 30 Dec. 2013. "Nuclear Power Is Expensive and Bad for The Environment. It's Being Pushed Because It Is Good for Making Bombs."washingtonsblog.com. N.p., 11 Apr. 2012. Web. 30 Dec. 2013. Sheldrick, Aaron, and Antoni Slodkowski. "Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cleanup In Japan Approaches Dangerous Operations."Huffington Post. N.p., 13 Aug. 2013. Web. 2013."What's the Damage?." greenpeace.org. N.p., 26 Apr. 2006. Web. 30 Dec. 2013.

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