Nuclear power advantage and disadvantage?

Question

what are they

Answer 1

advantage: more efficient and cleaner than coal

disadvantage: any disaster at a nuclear power station would be much worse than disasater at another type of power stationThe advantages are it produces lots of energy without depleting natural resources.

The disadvantage is radioactive waste. What do you do with the spent rods--which will be radioactive for years and years and years into the future.

The main advantage is the efficiency of the power generated. A lot of power is generated using nuclear power.

Disadvantages include workers are required and the waste is almost impossible to dispose of without destroying or harming something.



there are no advantages just disadvantages such as

global warming

other countries using nuclear weapons against us

and the ozone layer is getting worse all the time



Advantage= Electricity, less fossil fuel consumption=less CO released into the atmosphere, less dependence on foreign oil and other sources of power. Less involvement in world bickering over territories.

Disadvantage= whiners complaining about possible meltdowns and nuclear disaster...(you have a better chance at having a 747 crash through your livingroom wall.) Radioactive Waste (why couldn't we just ship it to the center of the solar system once a year?) Oh yeah and the big Disadvantage, less digging. A Mole has to work to ya know... Overall the reasons against Nuclear Power are far outweighed by the benefits of it... TMI and Chernobyol where flukes...

Advantages - more efficient than coal and hydroelectricity, doesn't contribute to global warming,

Disadvantages - radioactive waste to dispose of, limited fuel supply, risky operation

Did you know that if the world converted to nuclear energy tomorrow for all its energy needs, all of the worlds uranium supplies would be exhausted in 6 years.The advantages of nuclear power is there are less greenhouse gas emissions then a coal-fired plant so nuclear plants are cleaner there is strict control over the radioactive waste produced and there are a lot of jobs at a power plant

disvantages are even though the waste is watched carefully there is still concern over nuclear proliferation from other countries

even though some people are worried that a plane could fly into a plant it would not blow-up like a bomb

there have only been two major accidents chernobyl, three mile island. chernobyl had a full core melt down and three mile had a partial core meltdown chernobyl leaked radiation which spread across europe and three mile leaked very little

wikipedia has a lot more information then i can tell you

i think nuclear power is benifical as long as it is controled

Answer 2

advantage: nuclear, clean and cheap during processing

disadvantage: extremely costly to close down a plant and store waste by-products

true cost: if kilowatt cost was based on production to dismantling, nuclear would be the most expensive per kilowatt hour

Alternatives: solar, wind, burning sewage sludge, bio-fuels, all which are less costly and least likely to poison us in an event of a mishap

Answer 3

Advantages include an emmission-free power source (not counting the emmissions from mining and refining uranium and constructing the plant) and reliable energy compared to other emmission-free sources (wind, solar).  It won't help with energy independence, since we get almost none of our electricity from burning oil.

Disadvantages: non-renewable (depends on uranium, which is finite just like oil), generates waste that is dangerous for 100s of years (and they're gonna build the waste dump in YOUR back yard), a nuke plant is a huge terrorist target (so are radioactive waste dumps and uranium processing facilities), nuke plants take YEARS if not DECADES to permit and build.  And oh yeah, it's HUGELY expensive.  The current nuke infrastructure in the US cost us a trillion dollars and is grossly unprofitable because it is subsidized heavily by the US government.  We could generate more energy with the same amount of money by burning wood.  Some would say the same cost argument can be made against renewables like solar, but that is not neccesarily true.  In Japan, solar now competes unsubsidized against conventional sources and is economical.  This was accomplished with the help of high energy prices and a direct rebate program, which has now been fazed out, so solar is 100% unsubsidized in Japan.

Answer 4

Advantage...cleaner than coal/gas power plants; not cleaner than hydroelectric, wind, geothermal, and solar

Disadvantage...higher cost per KWH produced than all other forms but solar, which is just a bit higher [See source.]

Disadvantage...capital investment and disposal is more costly than competing conventional power stations

Advantage...plenty of fuel to extract from ore

Disadvantage...costly to extract and create fuel

Disadvantage...spent fuel is difficult and dangerous to transport and dispose

Disadvantage...higher downside risk to environment than all other forms of power generation should there be an accident

Advantage...probability of catastrophic accident for modern nuclear power plants is lower than for conventional plants

Even though I once worked as a nuclear physicist for a national laboratory, I tend to oppose nuclear power plants...they have to come up with some way to dispose of spent fuel rods.