NUCLEAR ENERGY

BENEFITS

• Low pollution
• Low maintenance costs
• It's reliable and will last us a fair amount of time
• More productive, less fossil fuels are used.
• A lot of energy is produced

DISADVANTAGES

• Negatively impacts the environment
• Radioactive Disposal
• Nuclear Accidents
• Uranium is limited
• High Disposal cost

FUSION

• Fusing lighter atoms together
• Occurs in the stars and the sun
• High energy and temperature

FISSION

• Splitting large atoms into smaller ones
• Rare in nature
• Takes little energy with this process

Nuclear energy is by far the cheapest according to this graph

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

• Very destructive (total area is leveled)
• Countries have increased the amounts of nuclear weapons. And could potentially use them against us and destroy our country.

3 MILE ISLAND

• Was on the verge of a meltdown
• The compress able to control it
• Although, cancer rates were increased and infant mortality rates