Alternate solution for energy crisis - Nuclear energy?

For the next 50 years top ten humanity problems are

ENERGY

WATER

FOOD

ENVIRONMENT

POVERTY

TERRORISM AND WAR

DISEASE

EDUCATION

DEMOCRACY

POPULATION.

Global population in the last two millennia has increased in a rapid way .The population till date 2012 is around 7 billions and by the end of 2050 it is assumed to be (8-10) billions. In poor and developing nations 75 millions people are increasing each year. There is no doubt world’s energy needs will be growing much more steeply from now than at any time since the beginning of industrial revolution

Humanity needs a lot of energy for light, heat, transport, food and so on in daily life. However, the popular way to create energy by burning fossil fuels causes serious problems to our environment. So we need another energy resource. Hence, nuclear power can be the best since it contains advantages of higher efficiency of energy but lower pollution to our world. Use of nuclear energy has two advantages over fossil-fuel plants

 (1) Nuclear reactors use less fuel than a fossil-fuel plant to generate the same amount of energy a fossil-fuel plant generates. The fissioning of 1 metric ton of uranium fuel provides the same amount of heat energy as burning of 3 million metric tons of coal or 12 million barrels of oil

(2) Uranium does not produce chemical or solid pollutants that are released into the air.

 Most countries today are dependent on nuclear power as a source of energy because of its high energy output and the availability of uranium used for fuelling nuclear reactors that generate power to provide electricity in households. Although using nuclear power as a source of energy has benefits like this, the danger posed by using nuclear power is very eminent. This was demonstrated in the recent Fukushima daiichi nuclear reactor crisis wherein the reactors as of March 24, 2011 at Fukushima Another widely known nuclear reactor accident was the Chernobyl disaster that occurred on April 26, 1986

Although experts argue that nuclear power should be used as a source of energy because it is a clean source of energy and does not produce any chemical or solid pollutants, the uranium that is used in fuelling the nuclear plants still remains radioactive and can still harm the surrounding community. To make it worse, the problem of nuclear waste disposal has not yet been solved. A number of solutions have been proposed like geological disposal wherein the radioactive waste is buried 500 to 1000 meters below the ground or the more complicated and costly space disposal of nuclear wastes. The latter being too costly because of the technology needed to be developed and financed to efficiently dispose the wastes.

  Summarizing and analysis of the pros and cons of the use of nuclear power, we can see that the sinister consequences of the decision to use nuclear power far outweigh the advantages of using such sources of energy.