A lot of peoples have fears towards Nuclear Power, but what if our long-held fears of nuclear energy in wrong? In the whole world, nuclear energy only represents 15% of the electricity produced. In France, about 80% of its electricity is produced from nuclear energy. Also, more than 25% of energy in Europe is produced using nuclear energy. Nuclear power should be use more worldwide due to the problem that we have on climate change, nuclear power might lead us to a carbon-free world, since the process of nuclear energy doesn’t produce any co2. Nuclear power is also more efficient and reliable. Nuclear energy the energy contained in atoms. A nuclear reactor produces and controls the release of energy from splitting the atoms of uranium. Nuclear …show more content…
Nuclear power is more efficient and reliable. First of all, the problem about Climate Change is still increasing right now. One of the most important reasons about climate change is the Greenhouse effect, the greenhouse effect is the greenhouse gases trapping heat in the atmosphere which increases the earth’s heat. Over 80% of the greenhouse gases is CO2. Even though the greenhouse effect is something natural but in the past 200 years, human changed the earth’s atmosphere in many different ways that caused way more greenhouse gas than usual. Fossil fuel is one of the most used energy in the world, over 80% of the world’s energy. But fossil fuel produces the most CO2 in all the other energy, which cause a lot of greenhouse gases. If we replace nuclear energy from fossil fuel, we will reduce the CO2 mitigation from 16-48%. Since 1974, since nuclear power has been used, we reduce 64 giga tons of CO2. Nuclear energy saves of 2.5 billion tonnes of CO2 if that same amount of energy was made from burning coal. Compare Nuclear energy’s Carbon footprint to other energy such as burning coal every kWhr of energy produced emits about 900 grams of CO2 when nuclear energy only produces 15g emitted per