What would happen if everyone in the world used nuclear energy?

Question

Would we make the world a more green placet? Would we eventually be in the same place we are now? Would we all turn into monsters like in "I am Legend" because of radiation?

Answer 1

To make a more 'green' planet, you have to feed the plants.  Carbon Dioxide is plant food.  More Carbon Dioxide makes the plants grow better and they produce more Oxygen and food as a result.

Spent nuclear fuel is hard to store.  I don't know where it would end up.  But, for sure, its radiation causes cancer and death rather than zombies.  It breaks DNA, which breaks living things.

Global Warming has made the planet more 'green' by driving back the crushing glaciers.  Since the last ice age ended 10,000 years ago, the glaciers have melted back nearly 2,000 miles, opening up lots of land for greenery and wildlife.

Warming makes a Greenhouse.

LIFE LOVES A GREENHOUSE

Answer 2

Well, life will be very different then now.

If anyone experienced chernobyl, remeber that it was human error that caused that. If they just left it alone it'll run prefectly fine by itself. Someone there just HAD to turn of all the safety systems and preform such a stupid test. Of course it'll blow up if you took off all the safeties, turned off all the pumps, and basicly ran it without water to cool down with.

The only real problems with nuclear energy is what to do with all those fuel rods? My solution is that if properly designed, we have about 400 years to invent a rocket to blast those into deep space or into the sun. Or we could just stockpile it on the moon. Yucca Mountain will be full soon with all the rods from the nuke plant. The other problem is security. A terrorist cannot wait to get their hands on some radioactive material to build a dirty bomb. In my opinion, we'll need AI bots in palce of humans to secure the place, no no one but authorized personnel can get into the place. No bribes, no families to threaten up, no way for a terrorist to somehow intimate the bots to let them in.

Say if everyone suddenly used nuclear energy tommorrow.

First, all cars are sold by lifetime, not how many miles driven and such. All cars are nuclear powered, with a sealed fuel cell that cannotbe replaced or removed. Mechanics will become obselete, no gas stations anymore. One average a RTG-powered car can last 400 years before its fuel cell died.

Second, all of all homes will be pwoered by nuclear energy. We'll have to pay a small tax to fund research on how to get rid of this waste in 500 years. All the city homes will use the current infrastrucre we have now, but homes in rural area all use portable nuclear reactors. They're all sealed systems, so you can't modify them or break them.

Third, everyting we have that uses power will use nuclear energy, people will understand nuclear energy way better than now. Our cell phone never need charging, lawn mowers need no gas, laptops uses nuclear power (they'll be heavier, but have extremely long lifes), the concept of batteries and chargers will only be seen in measueams. Oils will only be used as a lubercant, but synthetics are rapidly replacing that.

Most nuclear feuls for power plants run about 50 years, the higher the power output, the shorter they'll last. Cars will have cells that lasts about 50 years, ships up to 75, and the small portables caa last hundreds because they are low-power devices.

Someday we'll come up with a rocket ot blast those spent rods into the sun or something. we'll have plenty of time to do that.

Radiation is not a big issue, if everyone is educated about radiation, it will not be serious threat. And organisms don't mutate into monsters, they die. Irradiation on fruits and veggies kill all organisms on them, the food dies right there. But it doesn't become radioactive, poses no dangers to eat.

Answer 3

the end of the world

Answer 4

The first problem would be where would they all get the uranium or thorium to drive nuclear power? This would probably cause wars. The second problem would be the quantity of waste. France has used reprossessed nuclear wastes to reduce the volume of waste and to drive their reactors but still has to store around 80 metric tons of leftover highly dangerous waste including plutonium. Producing a waste that is dangerous and can be made into nuclear bombs is hardly a solution to the waste problem. Third, if dozens of countries had the same ability to make plutonium using reprossessed wastes, what would keep them from blowing us to kingdom come? If you check out the list of folks that want nuclear power for their country, you'll find quite a few that would worry peace loving nations.

Answer 5

If we all use nuclear energy we would not make the world a more green planet and nuclear waste is dangerous to store so that idea would probably get us buried in nuclear waste.

Answer 6

Well, most likely, the world would become full of radiation and pollution and it would become unlivable.  We would all die from too much smog in the air.

Answer 7

you mutate from radiation, but not in that way...your dna gets messed up from the flying protons.

Answer 8

Actually No. Nuclear energy is fast. Fast and Hot. Actually i'm thinking of that because my Astro decoder will work because nuclear energy does not use clouds.

Answer 9

France has a good safety record with nuclear power.  It gets a higher percentage of its power from nuclear energy than any other country.

I'm not sure how we would handle the waste.  Three Mile Island and Chernoble put the US into such a paranoid stance that I doubt nuclear power will ever be able to make a full come-back here.

I'd rather have us going for solar, wind, and water generated power.

No, the movie was fiction.  While nuclear waste could kill you, it doesn't change what you are now.  It can, however, make what you are now quit working properly.  You'd quite likely die before you became a "monster."