The introduction of nuclear plant began in early 50’s to supply electricity. Today there are over 400 plants worldwide with almost 100 over plants in USA providing base-load electricity continuously without emission of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/current-and-future-generation/nuclear-power-in-the-world-today/). Nuclear energy is defined as energy produced from nucleus of an atom. The fundamentals of nuclear energy can be described by two process, nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. While nuclear fusion is the combination of two small atom such as hydrogen and helium to produce large atom and energy, nuclear fission is release of energy from splitting of large atoms such as uranium and plutonium to smaller atoms (http://www.whatisnuclear.com/articles/nucenergy.html). Compared to energy obtained from fission, fusion process is said to be much cleaner, has unlimited and non-proliferation features however is still …show more content…
In fact, by far only nuclear energy has been able to produce large clean air energy and large volume of electricity day and night (http://www.nei.org/Why-Nuclear-Energy/Clean-Air-Energy/Clean-Air-Benefits). In fact it complies with air quality standards by producing zero emission of green-house gases or smog. This is due to the process in power plant where the operation emits nothing except for hot water. The nuclear waste can be moved correctly and disposed of geologically without disturbing the environment. In comparison, the use of coal according to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) releases radioactive dose 100 times higher than of nuclear plant as coal naturally contains 4ppm of thorium and uranium (Study of Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions from Electric Utility Steam Generating Units -- Final Report to Congress). Also the use of coal emits large amount of greenhouse gases and smog that reduces the quality of air and violates the Clean Air