Nuclear Energy: Past, Present, and Future

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Introduction: Past, Present and Future of Nuclear Energy3

Synoptic Description of the Current Status of the Use on Nuclear Energy4

Should we use Nuclear Energy?5

Nuclear Safety and Security5

Managing Spent Fuel5

Technological Innovation5

Occurrence of the Uranium Deposits5

Personal Suggestions: Pros and Cons of the Use of Nuclear Energy6

References Cited and Citations in the Text7

Introduction: Past, Present and Future of Nuclear Energy

Energy is necessary for expansion and growth. Development and expansion involves abolishing poverty and enhancing health care. This affect needs access to contemporary energy services. If these requirements of energy and development remain unresolved, the outcome appears as hazardous violence and conflicts, which ultimately influence expansion efforts and affect on local and worldwide stability. In this fashion, it is essential to consider imbalance of global energy. People living without access to electricity are nearly 1.6 billion. People who rely are on traditional biomass are 2.4 billion, due to the reason they have no access to modern fuels (ElBaradei, 2007, p. 18).

The real function and significance of nuclear energy in the worldwide energy have evolved so many times during the past 50 years because of different reasons. Few marked examples are 1970s and 1980s occurrence of fright in oil price and occurrences at “Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.” At the present time, there are multiple issued affiliated with energy sources. This list of concerns associated with nuclear energy includes economic conditions, explosion of hazardous material, the risk of violence and bombing, operation security, radioactive dissipate discarding, and, due to all these worries, public reception (Toth & Rogner, 2006, p. 2). Figure 1 is a typical pictorial presentation of nuclear energy.

Figure 1: Nuclear Energy: Past, Present and Future (retrieved from

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/climate-and-environment/nuclear-energy-past-present-and-future).

Currently, different designs of nuclear reactors have been enhanced and therefore they perform even better. Several reactors constructed in 1970s have shown their performance as much reliable that they had license expanded to work for 60 years. The reactor made in Ireland would possess these enhancements due to the fact that Ireland has comparatively small grid. It most possibly constructs small series of modular reactors (SMRs) relatively one huge reactor. Reactors appropriate for Ireland entail the “180 MWe B&W mPower.” A modular is a type of inertly secure, superior light water reactor, which will be accessible in 2022. Figure 2 represents a comprehensive image of nuclear reactor.

There are several various methods of utilizing nuclear fission to produce electricity. However, every method uses heat generated during the nuclear reaction to obtain a generator or turbine to process and generate electricity. Majority types of reactor process water to generate steam and utilize steam turbine whilst others utilize gas turbine through heating up a gas. Some of the essential types of reactors are light water reactors, pressurized water reactors (PWR), boiling water reactors (BWR), heavy water reactors, gas-cooled reactors, fast reactors, and thorium reactors (www.bene.ie/Reactors.html).

Figure 2: Nuclear Reactors (retrieved from: http://www.bene.ie/Reactors.html).

Synoptic Description of the Current Status of the Use on Nuclear Energy

Nuclear energy is the process and a resource, which turn out heat to produce ...