We Need Nuclear Power Plants to Keep the Lights On

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the usual green alternatives- water, wind, solar, and biomass, nuclear energy is here, now, and in industrial quantities” (Nuclear Power is the Best Way to Address Global Warming). Radiation containment, waste disposal, and nuclear weapons proliferation are manageable problems in a way that global warming is not. The United States only uses nuclear power to generate roughly 20 percent of the country’s energy is a growing market, while countries like Belgium, Sweden, South Korea, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, France, and the UK average a little over 39 percent of their power coming nuclear power.
Many of our green energy resources are not as cost effective as we had hoped they would be. Wind’s main downfall is its sporadic availability. On average, wind produces about 25 -35 percent of its peak capacity when averaged over a year and so it requires a backup for those windless days. Industrial-scale wind farms require large investments to both build the turbines and build backup ...

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