Elijah

=NUCLEAR ENERGY UNDERSTANDING:= //Nuclear energy is produced when an atom (same number of protons & different neutrons) has. For example the atomic bomb had no monitors which made it unstable. Therefore causes a very large explosion. Heat and disintegration. What they use in labs to power it is uranium and plutonium. They mostly use uranium because it is much more easily found than plutonium. //

= NUCLEAR ENERGY ADVANTAGES: = = =
 * // The upside to nuclear energy is that since fossil fuels are running out because of human consumption the possibilities to nuclear energy could be an alternative. //
 * // Nuclear energy has an advantage because only about a ton is equal to about a million tons of coal to make the same amount of energy. //
 * // Fossil fuels are a gigantic contribution to global warming and a safe laboratory could not let any energy out. //

=NUCLEAR ENERGY DISADVANTAGES:=
 * //Although there are many advantages to nuclear energy there are also some major bad ones. Nuclear energy creates nuclear waste which takes millions of years to become stable.//
 * //Although the reactors are seemed to be stable but the reactors must be replaced every 50 years which costs so much money.//
 * //If an accident happened and went to a point beyond what happened at the Fukushima nuclear plant then it could endanger millions of people (example of this could be the Chernobyl accident).//
 * //If even a kilo of nuclear waste were to get into the hands of terrorists than it could be catastrophic.//

=//NUCLEAR ENERGY EXAMPLES://=
 * //A disaster that happened including nuclear reactors was the Chernobyl accident. There was a leak and the government did not warn the community and millions died.//
 * //The Fukushima nuclear plant produced a lot of good electricity before it was damaged by the tsunami.//

=//HOW TO CREATE ELECTRICITY USING NUCLEAR ENERGY://=
 * //They place (usually uranium 238 and/or plutonium) into the nuclear rods. The rods make the nuclear isotopes hit each other at super speeds which makes heat of up to around 2,000 degrees. They are placed in water and the heat turns the water into steam which is hot enough to melt humans at turbines which turns to make electricity.//

=//HOW NUCLEAR ENERGY AFFECTS THE ENVIRONMENT://=
 * //An example could be at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Radioactive isotopes went airborne. When they finally hit the ground they went into the grass, dirt and leaves.//
 * //When it went into the ground the animals grown within the radius will have radioactive contamination inside of them.//
 * //It also affects the plants and the fruits and the vegetables so they are now not edible.//

=//HOW NUCLEAR ENERGY AFFECTS HUMAN HEALTH://=
 * //There are three types of radioactive rays:Alpha, Beta, Gamma.//
 * //Here is the order from strongest to weakest:Gamma, Beta, Alpha//
 * //The only one that can get past healthy skin is the gamma rays. They can go right through the skin. It can go into your atoms and can give the electrons so much energy than can actually escape the magnetic field of the protons and that can damage the DNA. Once atoms become unstable that can lead to the DNA's atom becoming unstable. That can lead to the damaged DNA dying or it mutates and reproduces.//

=//Nuclear Waste://=
 * //Takes millions of years to become stable.//
 * //To keep stable you must place it in immense areas of cold water.//
 * //Even a kilo could be made to make a horrific dirty bomb.//
 * //Nuclear waste is nuclear fuel that cannot be used to generate enough electricity as scientists would like.//

=//Dirty Bomb://=
 * //Used by 99% terrorists.//
 * //A dirty bomb is a weapon that uses radioactive material that uses explosives to blow up.//
 * //Put it in the middle of a crowded city and you can kill up to 4 million people.//
 * //Dirty bombs are not made with government/military grade explosives so it is not catagorized as a WMD (Weapon Of Mass Destruction) so the government refers to them as WMD (Weapon Of Mass Disruption.//
 * //The explosion itself is not the most dangerous part but the fact that if you stay in that area than you can be affected by radiation after-effects.//
 * //The difference between dirty bombs and clean bombs is that clean bombs have been tested or scientifically assessed. Whereas a dirty bomb//