BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY

• Lowered greenhouse gasses
• Cheaper than others
• Reliable
• Easily transported
• Powerful and efficent

HARMS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY

• Radioactive waste
• Harmful to animal life
• Nuclear accidents
• High cost
• Nuclear radiation

Fission
Fission is the splitting of a large atom into two or more smaller ones

Fusion
Fusion is the fusing of two or more lighter atoms into a larger one

COST BENIFITS

• Provides new jobs
• Much cheaper than things like electrical energy
• More renewable/easier to get

DANGERS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Nuclear meltdown
The Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, USSR, 1986. After a natural disaster like an earthquake, nuclear plants can be damaged which leaks chemicals that can be very damaging and take millions of years to get out of the ground.

This can be very damaging to plants and animals in the invironment, even causing mutations.