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Nuclear Power Is The Way Forward In Britain.
Coal power is destroying our environment. Renewable energy is ideal, but is expensive and inefficient to supply our energy demands. Nuclear power uses a fuel which is in abundant supply, produces no carbon dioxide emissions, and has a much higher fuel input to energy output ratio than any other fuel.
 ibanex_87  05 May 2008 17:50
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Nuclear energy is clean and if you disagree please show some proof.
 
 conor  07 May 2008 00:13
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It's worth it a this moment in time. We're running low on a lot of renewable sources, the amount of energy that nuclear can harvest is far too tempting to pass whilst the current threat of zero energy looms on the horizon.
 
 Anti_hero  06 May 2008 17:54
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I guess, but I wish it didn't have to be that way
 
 lavatis  06 May 2008 14:01
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Yes. There is no other practical choice now. The oil is running out big time and we need to make a switchover to something sustainable now. Of course, options such as wind power and solar energy, and more blue-sky efforts should be pursued, but we can't assume those are going to be in a position to supply all of our energy needs within 30 years or so, which is the timeframe we should be looking at.

Unfortunately, it's not true that the raw material used in nuclear power is in abundant supply. If everyone in the world switched over to nuclear power to meet their energy needs rather than oil, gas, and coal, the world would quickly run out. However, it's likely that different kinds of nuclear reactors can be developed which will use more abundant raw materials.
 
 Hidell  06 May 2008 12:50
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 Uranium is used and then when that runs out plutonium can be used.
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 06 May 2008 18:19
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Agree. Not only Britain but US as well.
 
 charlee  06 May 2008 01:49
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By 2050, it'll be nuclear power or nuclear weapons. Either countries will wake up to reality or kill each other fighting for what's left.

Solar, hydroelectric, geothermal and tidal power are all renewable resources for cheap electricity. Nuclear power isn't, but it produces the most power for the least input. Not switching to these forms of power is inevitable suicide, but people won't do it because oil and other corporations are fighting it.
 
 K9  05 May 2008 18:00
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And what would you do with the nuclear waste?
 
 sceptic101  06 May 2008 21:21
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 Store it in a stable, safe underground place away from water reserves. Nuclear power does exist in the UK already and some of the waste is stored in a high contamination unit on the coast.
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 06 May 2008 21:23
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I'd have to agree with koranzite. To use nuclear power at this moment in time would be risky because we don't know if we will ever find a way to get rid of it. My thoughts on the subject are to turn oil-producing budgets and oil-selling revenue into renewable resource producing facilities. After enough facilities are produced and if we could keep the population at a ideal stationary point then we could easily support ourselves on just the profit power of these renewable power plants, but that is a whole lot of idealism and could only happen if the oil companies stood aside and people do the impossible... Work together!
 
 Smito  06 May 2008 13:50
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We currently have no way of destroying nuclear waste. If we continue to rely on nuclear power, then we will soon have a collosal problem with no apparent way out.
 
 Koranzite  06 May 2008 08:33
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 plutonium is the most radioactive substance we know about but all radio active material loses it radiation quickly and after a good amount of time its just your average rock or water.
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 07 May 2008 00:09
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