The invention that has affected our lives the most is nuclear power plants. It may provide us energy, but have you noticed how dangerous, very expensive, and dirty it is?
One reason nuclear plants are dangerous is because it can or will release enormous amounts of radiation into communities. If radiation is released many people will have to evacuate. Many of them may never come back. “If the industry's current track record is any indication, we can expect a major meltdown about once per decade,” according to the Greenpeace Nuclear Energy web page. Mostly every waste dump in the U.S leaks radiation into the environment. Nuclear Plants are running out of ways to store waste. The spread of nuclear weapons and technology is also a threat to communities and the planet.
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Nuclear plants are too expensive to build. Mostly every nuclear plant is usually behind schedule and at least $1 billion over budget. This is before we take into account the cleanup and health costs, caused by waste, pollution, and meltdowns. In 1954, Lewis Strauss promised that nuclear power plants would one day provide energy “too cheap to meter”. Years later nuclear power plants still remain very expensive. Nuclear power plants cannot be economically working without the help of the government support because it is too expensive. The federal government has still continued to give money to the nuclear industry. One example would be the Energy Policy Act of 2005, it included more than 13 million in production subsidies, tax breaks and other reasons for nuclear power plants. The most important grant of money and the most expensive would come from loan guarantees. This promises the taxpayers will pay the nuclear tools by paying back their loans when projects fail. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the failure of rate is “very high well above 50