If you succeed in using the nuclear-physical findings for peaceful purposes, it will open the way to a new paradise. Einstein
Facts:
- Nuclear power produces no carbon dioxide - it's zero carbon.
- Nuclear fuel is 10 million times more powerful than coal.
- A nuclear power station would fit on a football pitch - to grow crops to produce the same amount of energy would take up the whole of the highlands of Scotland - to build wind turbines to produce the same amount of energy would line the coastline from Lands End to Dover.
- An air hostess receives more radiation than a nuclear power worker.
- Every new nuclear power station is strong enough to withhold a 9/11 type terrorist attack.
- Ninety per cent of the world's radiation is in the atmosphere - 9.9% comes from medical activities - 0.003% comes from nuclear power stations.
- If everyone in the world was given a share of the planet's nuclear waste for their lifetime it would be the size of a golf ball.
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Virtually the whole of France's electricity is powered by 60 nuclear power stations.
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There are 20 nuclear power stations on the French coast south of Calais.
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30 new nuclear power stations in the UK would provide nearly all of our electricity.
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30 new nuclear power stations in the UK would reduce our CO2 emissions by 40%
Some Simple Facts About Nuclear Energy
- Nuclear Energy is source that powers the Sun, and gives light and heat to support all life on Earth. Without it we simply wouldn't exist!
- Nuclear reactors break apart large particles into smaller ones. By the laws of physics, this produces lots of heat, according to Einstein's famous equation E=mc2: the amount of energy is the mass times the speed of light squared - that's a lot of energy.
- Nuclear reactors run using a fuel called Uranium, found in rocks across the world. Each kilogram of Uranium potentially holds as much energy as one thousand tonnes of coal - a million times more per gram.
- At the moment, the world gets most [85%] of it's energy from coal, oil and gas, known collectively as fossil fuels, because they are the fossilised remains of plants laid down over millions of years.
- We burn about a cubic mile of oil every year. [A mile wide by a mile long, by a mile high – can you imagine this??? Or 10,000 million tonnes of oil is approximately 20,000 vast oil tankers]. Imagine if all the forests of the world were continuously on fire and you have some idea of the pollution effect of burning fossil fuels.
- This is having a huge effect on the planet's atmosphere. We have already changed the Earth's atmosphere more than it changed at the end of the last ice age.
- Unlike coal or gas, nuclear power stations do not produce polluting gases such as carbon dioxide. (Even when you take into account building the stations, mining and preparing fuel of low concentration, the total life cycle emissions are less than 1% of fossil fuel electricity). Unlike coal or gas, nuclear power stations do not produce polluting gases such as carbon dioxide. (Even when you take into account building the stations, mining and preparing fuel of low concentration, the total life cycle emissions are less than 1% of fossil fuel electricity).
- 1 coal power station burns 2.3 million tonnes of coal per year (a train 100km long). It pollutes into the atmosphere 3 cubic kilometers of Carbon Dioxide gas.
- 1 oil power station burns 1.5 million tonnes of oil per year – 3 enormous super tankers.
- 1 nuclear power station takes up less than half a square kilometer. It can power a city of 1 million people with electricity 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
- Fossil fuels pollute with carbon dioxide, and no other pollutants such as Nitrous Oxide (also causing global warming), sulphur dioxide (acid rain) and soot (causing respiratory problems). A nuclear power station emits no significant waste into the environment.
- To replace the same power stations with wind electricity would require windmills the size of Big Ben from Land's End to Dover. (1000x 3GW peak/1MW average, taking 500m each = 500km). Even if we covered the entire coast and all the hills, we would only have electricity when the wind blows, and only about 10% of our total energy demand on average.
- Total affordable UK renewable capacity (<7p/kWh) is only 10% of total energy demand.
- To replace the same power with biomass would require an area the size of North Wales. The entire cropland surface of Earth would not provide enough biofuel to power our motor cars – and we will need the land to grow food.
- Even taking the theoretical maximum for renewables (everywhere covered in wind turbines, every single roof in Britain covered in photovoltaic panels, at huge cost) we could only generate maybe one third of our total energy. Renewables such as solar cells, and Carbon Capture and Storage have much higher carbon footprints than nuclear.
- Every nuclear power station in the West has a specially designed concrete containment shield. These have never failed. Russian reactors never had this. Nobody has died in the Western nuclear power program, compared to tens of thousands in coal mines, gas pipeline explosions hydro accidents etc. New nuclear power stations can be built of a 'passively safe' modular design.
- Summary: Nuclear Power is Safe, Secure and can power a prosperous future! It can keep the earth cool enough for the future of humanity and the plants and animals of the planet.
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