Risk,+Benefit,+Limitation+Analysis


 * __Risk/Benefit /Limitation Analysis __**

However, nuclear power plants have many risks, benefits and limitation which affect the health, minds and lifestyles of people. Nothing is perfect in this world.

   Limitations ** 
 * Risks **
 * A major pollutant.
 * Pollute the environment and affect people’s health, “wind and rain erosion wash nuclear waste into streams and rivers, poisoning the waters, killing the fish and eventually threatening humans throughout the water they drink.”
 * Generates a large amount of highly radioactive material and thus radiation is harmful to our bodies.
 * Radiation can sink deep into our bodies and damage the biological cells and gradually may cause cancer.
 * Two controversial examples are the 1979 Three Mile Island and 1986 Chernobly disasters. As a result of the Chernobyl disaster in April 26, 1986, 31 people died from radiation, 200 people hospitalized and 135,000 people were evacuated. It is estimated that thousands of people who lived around Chernobyl nuclear power plant would die of cancer from the nuclear radiation in the next 70 years.
 * Radiation is toxic and cannot be touched, tasted or smelled.
 * Radiation makes people insecure and hence they do not wish to live near the nuclear plants anymore.
 * Can be used a source of nuclear arms, such as nuclear missiles, bombs and submarines which use nuclear reactor as the engine and may spark terrorism.
 * Nuclear arms are dangerous such as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the World War II.
 * <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Benefits **
 * <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Efficient, can produce 10 times more of nuclear power energy than the availability of coal and 100 times the expected availability of oil.
 * <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Reliable and sufficient to supply the total world demand for energy for hundreds of centuries.
 * <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">People cannot live without electricity for our current and future lifestyles and nuclear power plants produce the energy to meet the demand.
 * <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Safer and cleaner than using coal and gasoline because it only emits less than one hundredth the greenhouse gases of coal or gasoline.
 * <span style="color: #3333ff; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">More easily accessible than oil.
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 * <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Although clean and efficient on the whole, there are still some chances of emitting carbon dioxide from the construction of the conversion into nuclear fuel.
 * <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Accidents may occur when there is a leakage in nuclear power.
 * <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nuclear is unable to fuel the cars, planes, trucks and trains.
 * <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Extreme high costs for construction of a nuclear plant which ranges from US$6 to US$10 billion.
 * <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">High nuclear waste disposal costs.