Nuclear power - A Non-Renewable resource

Nuclear vigor has been touted as an alternative to mainstream electricity production from fossil fuel sources. But how does Nuclear collate to fossil fuels in the long run?

Undoubtedly fossil fuels have serious issues connected with them. Peak Oil production is one such question which will very soon make its presence felt at both the national and private level. an additional one even more serious concern is the possibility of serious and perhaps irreversible climate convert brought about by pollution primarily in the form of Carbon Dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Nuclear Reactor

So how does Nuclear vigor stand up as an alternative to fossil fuels in terms of a sustainable source of electricity production? There are several concerns about Nuclear vigor that have given it a bad name. Reactor problems such as those that caused the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl incidents, along with several others, are far fewer in whole relative to the scale of electricity production than compared to casualties in the mining sector connected with oil and coal.

Storage of Nuclear waste is also largely an issue of the past with technology now available to store Nuclear waste in solid form, reducing virtually to zero the possibility of leakage, ground water contamination and so forth.

Use of fuel enrichment to furnish weapons grade nuclear materials such as Plutonium-239 is an unfortunate but valuable part of the economical use of nuclear fuel. It is worth remembering that no aggressive nuclear charge has been carried out since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War Two, and that many millions of casualties have occurred in conventional warfare since that same time.

The reality for us though is that nuclear power relies upon supplies of Uranium and Plutonium that are themselves limited. While these resources may have only begun to be exploited, it is inevitable that if our current level of growth of vigor consumption continues then Nuclear fuel will also face the prospect of its own peak production level.

It cannot be a responsible decision to replace fossil fuels with an additional one vigor source that is also doomed to run out in the foreseeable future. While those proponents of Nuclear power proclaim it as the salvation of our current situation they are not looking far sufficient into the future.

To make correct, responsible decisions that take into inventory not only our own welfare but also that of our children and their children, we need to adopt wide scale renewable vigor in the form of Solar and Wind power. These proven technologies have the capacity to meet our vigor demands Today with no adverse future effects, assuming they are implemented in an involving way.

It is time for Governments around the world to stop looking for excuses and start manufacture moves that assure the arrival generations a safe, vigor rich and pollution free world. We need to begin implementing gigantic scale renewable vigor immediately.

Nuclear power - A Non-Renewable resource