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The Nuclear Power Debate
Title: The Nuclear Power Debate
Category: Science & Technology / Physics
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The Nuclear Power Debate
27/6 THE NUCLEAR POWER DEBATE
In 1953, nuclear energy was introduced into America as a cheap and efficient energy source, favoured in place of increasingly scarce fossil fuels which caused air pollution. Its initial use was welcomed by the general public, as it was hoped to lower the price of electricity, and utilise nuclear power for it's potential as a resource, not a weapon. However, as people became aware of the long term dangers involved in storing …showed first 75 words of 811 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 811 total…efficient and suitable for major electricity generation. Peter Kelly concluded his thesis, "...nuclear power should be seen as a way to tide us over to an age of conservation and renewables. Barring an unexpected breakthrough in fusion, the age of nuclear power will end in the foreseeable future."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Microsoft Encarta '95 Microsoft Corporation
1994-95
2. Nuclear power: an energy future we can't afford Peter Kelly
3. World Energy Needs and Nuclear Power Unknown
Nuclear Issues Briefing Paper 11 June 1996
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