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2. Nuclear Power

8. Benefits of Nuclear Energy 1 kg Uranium = 100,000 kg of oil Less environmental impact to harvest Nuclear plants don’t produce: SO 2 (acid rain) CO 2 (greenhouse) Average cost is much less than fossil

9. Benefits of Nuclear Energy

10. Challenges of Nuclear Energy Waste disposal; several remedies: Containment Treatment Reduction Reprocessing (recycling)

11. Challenges of Nuclear Energy The nuclear power plant accidents at Three Mile Island in the United States and Chernobyl in Ukraine are well known; however, despite these incidents, nuclear power has a remarkable record.

13. Nuclear Steam Plants Boiling Water Reactors Pressurized Water Reactors

14. Boiling Water Reactor

15. Pressurized Water Reactor

16. Pressurized Water Reactor

17. What produces the energy? Nuclear fission

21. n COMPOUND NUCLEUS TARGET NUCLEUS NEUTRON

23. What happens to the old fuel? Onsite Storage Yucca Mountain

24. On-site wet storage

25. On-site Dry Cask Storage