Can nuclear power significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Question

I'm doing a final project...ANY ideas will help! Thanks!

Answer 1

Yes, because instead of burning coal to produce electricity, which gives off a great deal of greenhouse gas, nuclear power uses controlled nuclear fission.  The reason it's not more widespread is because the half-life of the spent reactor rods is longer than any material that could contain it, because everyone believes a nuclear power plant could explode like a nuclear bomb, though it can't, that the plant may meltdown and release radiation.  Also, the the water that is heated by the nuclear reaction to create steam to move turbines and create electricity, just like coal powered plants, is often expended into local streams or rivers, raising the water temperatures and killing aquatic wildlife.

Answer 2

Nuclear Power already significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions.  The 400+ operating nuclear reactors in the world avoid the emission of millions of tons of carbon dioxide, particulates, smog, lead, and many other contaminates (like thorium and uranium).  Currently the uranium fuel used in nuclear reactors is mined, processed, enriched, and fabricated using a variety of energy intensive operations that produce a lot of "greenhouse gases".  These operations require transportation of the material and huge amounts of electricity (mostly generated by coal plants).  Until the entire energy cycle of nuclear fuel production is provided by nuclear power plants, nuclear energy will not be entirely free of greenhouse gas emissions.

Much information is available at www.nei.org.

Answer 3

Nuclear power does not affect greenhouse emissions itself.   When it replaces fossil fuel use, then it has an effect equal to the savings that would have been incurred with the fossil fuel.   Unlike solar,  it works at night too.  and unlike wind,  it works constantly.   There are some problems with spend fuel storage and security,  but there are no viable alternatives unless we want to go back to the 1840's for a lifestyle.

Answer 4

Yes, it's one indispensable tool.

We can build safe plants that are safe from terrorists.  Waste disposal is a political issue, not a technical one.

Overall plans for reducing global warming:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/worl...

Answer 5

nope what are you thinking if every buddy turns own there Marcoway the would would blow up

it doesn't make a diffrent