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    top environmental concerns, a recent increasing effort has provided multiple ideas including those of chemists, professors, and world corporations. The efforts provided by these group of people of improving certain energy producing methods such as Nuclear energy plants offers hope to ultimately reduce the globe’s high emission of CO2, thus

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    To create is to bring something into existence in result of one or more actions. We as human beings have the power to create, and this gift allows all creative minds to flourish. In the world we are thankful for all Similarly, from time to time, we have evolved to create machines which replace human labour to increase efficiency. For instance, creating electricity to power our electronics.. however, just as we 've innovated creation, destruction became a byproduct of humanity 's endeavors. A Disaster

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    Oil Is Destroying the Environment! - Argument Essay for the Use of Nuclear Fusion By: Bryanna Bergevin Oil has been used for centuries as the main source of energy in this country. It has been valued very high from that because it is very hard to find, and there 's a limit of how much people can use. What if there was a time where this country could run out of oil? That wouldn 't allow society to function properly, because of the rate were using oil now. The amount of oil burned also causes a huge

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    Dillon G. Nuclear Energy vs. Conventional Petroleum Energy Through out the history of the United states the main source of energy has been conventional Oil, Coal, and gas energy, or better known as Conventional petroleum energy. However as the demand for electricity sky rockets the pollution produced from the traditional fossil fuel burning plants is reaching dangerous levels. Gas, coal and oil burning power plants are as of now responsible for half of America’s air pollution (tripod/online)

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    In 1968, the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine experienced a power surge that caused the biggest nuclear disaster to go down in history (Cohen).The Russian Woodpecker, a 2014 Sundance Documentary by Chad Garcia, searches through the history ,along with Fedor Alexandrovich, behind the mystery of the Woodpecker and the disastrous event. In this award winning documentary, Garcia and Alexandrovich go into the nuclear site and sicker the unimaginable. In time, their findings lead to one question in high

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    Although this is not necessarily mean bad, but there are also some disadvantages when we only focus on big scale energy systems. A couple of good examples are hydroelectric and nuclear power. While these two sources of energy produce energy in completely different ways, they are traditionally massive in its scale. Hydroelectric power is the oldest energy source. From a small water-wheel to a massive dam, humans have been used many of them for a long time. Since the principles of the technology in hydroelectric

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    It is a very good way to get these resources that are thousands of feet in the ground, but it also causes problems. I think it should be used in the future because it is an efficient way of getting these resources. EnergyGiven the advantages of nuclear power, do you think Canada should concentrate on

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    With 53% of the European Union’s energy being imported in 2013, it is not a surprise that the European Union is continuously seeking alternative energy methods to help gain energy independence. If not complete independence, they hope to lower their reliance on Russia who to frequently uses its energy dominance as a foreign policy weapon. Russian and Ukrainian disputes in 2006, 2009, and 2014 have led to critical gas shortages across the European Union and a public opinion that Russian natural gas

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    You may not know much about nuclear power, you may not know anything at all but most importantly you may not know how dangerous it is. I am going to take a look back at Chernobyl and show you just how dangerous it can be. (1)At 1:23 am on April 26th 1986, 2 explosions devastated a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. These explosions unleashed huge amounts of toxic radiation into the atmosphere. This radiation created a toxic plume of radiation that not only devastated Chernobyl but affected almost

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    differing production methods have been derived in response to this, one of the most controversial of which is Nuclear energy supplied through Uranium mining. This is a uniquely topical issue in Australia, on account of the sheer amount of Uranium held in Australia’s borders (30% of the world’s reserves) and its potential impact on Australia’s economy (4), the politicised and partisan nature of nuclear debate, along with longstanding opposition associated with such striking international disasters as the

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