According to NASA’s scientist Pushker A. Kharecha and James E. Hansen, the emissions from nuclear energy will cause fewer deaths in the long run compared to fossil fuels. They also say that because of nuclear energy, it has prevented 1.84 million air pollution-related deaths and 64 gigatonnes. Nuclear energy is also suspected to be able to prevent the 420,000 to 7.04 million deaths by 2050, if we switch over to it.
Nuclear energy is an extremely scary idea, after thinking about nuclear activity in the past you only hear about how much destruction and death they have caused. History has slandered the face of nuclear energy, nuclear energy is considered safe compared to coal mining and to oil drilling. Nuclear energy is considered the least deadly of all energies. If you think of it, nuclear waste isn’t as deadly for the environment if we can store like we already do, comparatively to the emissions of the fossil fuels they are destroying the earth because of their emissions. Nuclear energy only has the nuclear waste and steam in the end.
Article found in this blog can be found at:Ganzalez, Robert T. "NASA Researchers: Nuclear Power Will Kill Fewer People than Natural Gas." Io9. Gawker Media 2013, 4 Feb. 2013. Web. 25 Apr. 2013.
Photographic found in this blog can be found at: http://www.alternate-energy-sources.com/images/nuclearreactionhow2.JPG
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