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Informative Speech On Nuclear Power

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Attention Getter: What first comes up in our heads when we think about what modern civilization is? The first idea is technical progress, but also after it - how to support and develop it, about how to maintain a balance between nature and man.
In conditions when both technologies and our needs require more and more energy, it is impossible to count only on natural resources and to think that their reserves are unlimited. This is not true. We have learned to receive electricity from irreplaceable resources – oil, gas, also from replenished - water, wind, sun. But the energy of the sun or wind is not enough for today’s rythm of our civilization. And hydroelectric and thermal power plants are not as clean and economical for the modern rhythm …show more content…

Nuclear power provided 11 percent of the world 's electricity production in 2014. In 2016, 13 countries relied on nuclear energy to supply at least one-quarter of their total electricity.
Nuclear power is useful for the submarine fleet and nuclear icebreakers. The use of atomic engines allows them to exist for a long time autonomously, move to any distance. For submarines - to be under water for months.

Transition: Unfortunately, nuclear energy is used not only for peaceful purposes. It is used as a nuclear weapon. It is a weapon of mass destruction. This weapon can kill millions of people, with the effects persisting for decades. The use of nuclear weapons in war can be disastrous for the whole of world.

A single nuclear warhead, if detonated on a large city, could kill millions of people, with the effects persisting for decades.
This weapon can be used in nuclear terrorism or intimidation. Because of this, various public organizations resist the wide use of nuclear power.
It was first developed in the 1940s, and during the Second World War to 1945 research initially focussed on producing bombs which released great energy from the atoms of particular isotopes of either uranium or plutonium.

It is also can cause fatal consequences. One of the main disadvantages of nuclear power plants is the severe consequences of accidents.
One of the good examples is the Chernobyl accident.
Radiation damage can affect

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