Developments in technology provide many different innovations for our lives day by day and these developments make human beings’ life easier. The usage of atomic nucleus in order to generate electrical energy is one of the biggest developments and innovations in engineering field and science. This advancement changed the perspective of scientists and gave them another point of view about generating electrical energy by using a new and unusual way. Thereby, the usage of new technology with atomic nucleus in generating energy brought many debates and different questions along with it. This study claims that although it is a generally accepted fact that nuclear power plants and nuclear energy have some bad impacts on the nature and human beings as they can harm people, plants and animals, nuclear wastes and radiation leakage are dangerous, they have numerous beneficial effects like being a big energy resource and an important political prestige for a country and reducing the dependency on fossil fuels as well.
Nuclear energy is a kind of new technology in order to boil water to make steam to drive turbines which
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The direct way is already a widely known technique that generates electrical energy in nuclear power plants by using some amount of enriched uranium which is also known as “U-238 isotope”. On the other hand, the usage of nuclear energy consists of many indirect ways as well. For instance, the sun, which is one of the most commonly used renewable energy sources in the 21st century, also “produces light from the nuclear energy” (Ferguson 6). Moreover, there are many other ways that also includes nuclear energy while generating electrical energy. “For example, photovoltaic panels and concentrated solar energy to produce steam are two ways to harness the sun to generate electricity” (Ferguson