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Arguments in favor of nuclear power has recently experienced a renewed interest in nuclear energy as a solution to oil depletion and global warming and electricity demand is growing and nuclear energy generates virtually no greenhouse gases as opposed to common alternatives such as coal. It has been claimed nuclear energy as a solution to the greenhouse effect (eg, “nuclear plants are green.”). This has been challenged by several environmental organizations. Germany has combined off with an initiative for renewable energy and wants to increase the efficiency of fossil power plants in an effort to reduce its dependence on coal. According to the German minister J rgen Trittin, in 2020, this 40 cut in emissions of carbon dioxide compared with 1990 levels. Germany has become a leader in efforts to meet Kyoto protocol.Critics of German politics have highlighted the contradiction between abandoning nuclear power and renewable energy installations, where both have very low CO2 emissions. Nuclear reactors emit no greenhouse gases or ash during normal operation, but mining and uranium processing do entail emissions. The emissions that come from the entire life cycle are fully comparable with those of wind energy. Nuclear reactors and other power plants raise the temperature of rivers used to cool them, which endangers the health of fish in certain ecosystems. This may include fish species already close to extinction as a result of hydropower and other human activities. This can be greatly reduced through the use of cooling towers, which are located in places where additional warming is estimated unacceptable.All wastes are packaged and stored, so different from what is done with other sources such as coal or oil in which the pollution is released directly into the surrounding environment. Without nuclear power plants the United States could annually emit about 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, which is approximately the same volume as currently produced by cars in the U.S.. The nuclear waste loses its radioactivity over time. After 50 years, 99.1 of the radiation has already been issued, which present a sharp contrast with arsenic and other chemicals that are stable and will exist forever, and that are released by burning coal. Despite being very controversial, proponents of nuclear power argue that the solution for permanent underground disposal of waste is well established.They point out that the example of the Oklo natural, natural repository of nuclear waste, where such waste has been stored for about 2 billion years with a minimum contamination of the surrounding ecosystem. The nuclear waste is also very small in volume and mean (by volume) less than 1 of toxic waste in industrialized countries. 96 of nuclear waste can be recycled and reused, if the additional risks of proliferation deem that acceptable. In some countries there are no viable alternatives.In the words of the French: “We have no coal, no oil there, we have natural gas, we have no choice.” Shutdown Critics everywhere rely on the nuclear power plants could not be compensated for, and predict an energy crisis or invoke that only coal could possibly make nuclear energy a tremendous increase in CO2 emissions or increased energy imports, either nuclear or oil. Nuclear power has been relatively unaffected by embargoes, because the uranium ore is exploited in reliable countries such as Australia and Canada, unlike, for example, major natural gas suppliers, including some states of the former Soviet Union . One argument for the proponents of nuclear energy is the energy economy.They say nuclear energy is the only energy source that explicitly calculated within the total cost, estimated costs for treatment and storage of waste and for removal of the plant, that the costs for fossil fuel plants deceptively low for this reason. Moreover, the cost of many renewable energy would increase by including the necessary sources of support because of its intermittent nature. It has been estimated that wind power, one of the greatest hope for proponents of off, it costs three times more than the average for electricity in Germany. The proponents of nuclear energy say that nuclear power plants are safe and protected from attacks.

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