Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and do useful work. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity
Australia is the second largest supplier of Uranium ore after Canada, yet it doesn't have a single nuclear power station.
1kg of U ore = 100kg of coal. Uranium also emmits far less green house gases and Co2 then coal.
The bad thing is that there needs to be a safe place to get rid of the nuclear waste, and also that the plants run on electricity.
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Nuclear Power
What is nuclear power? Lets find out.
Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and do useful work. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity
http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/Community/WhatIsNuclearEnergy.shtm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power
http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm
Australia is the second largest supplier of Uranium ore after Canada, yet it doesn't have a single nuclear power station.
1kg of U ore = 100kg of coal. Uranium also emmits far less green house gases and Co2 then coal.
The bad thing is that there needs to be a safe place to get rid of the nuclear waste, and also that the plants run on electricity.