Nuclear By: Leah Rivers

Advantages Cheap electricity Easy transportation Lower carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere Nuclear waste can be reduced through waste recycling and reprocessing Lowers greenhouse gas emissions

Disadvantages Waste lasts 200-500 thousand years Nonrenewable Impact on human life (World War 2, nuclear bomb) High cost Radioactive waste

Does this trend support Connecticut’s initiative to decrease the use of nonrenewable resources by year 2010? This trend does not support the initiative decrease of nonrenewable resources by year 2010 because the trend constantly increases rapidly to 1999 where it stops almost to decrease a little, but will continue to increase as long as we use this nonrenewable resource of Nuclear energy.

How does Nuclear energy work? Nuclear energy works in a generator which produces electricity. Power plants run on fuels burn coals to generate heat. This is where heat is produced from splitting atoms which is called nuclear fission.