The threat of nuclear weapons maintains world peace. Nuclear power provides cheap and clean energy. The benefits of nuclear energy far outweigh the disadvantages. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

While it is clear that there are some definite advantages to nuclear power,

such

as low fuel costs and no polluting gases in our atmosphere, I do not believe that the benefits are greater than the negatives of nuclear energy. While large-scale disasters are rare in the nuclear industry,

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accident can be deadly. One need only consider the effects of energy-related accidents throughout the

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fifty years. When an oil tanker runs aground, the immediate water is contaminated, but clean-up is swift and the spill is eventually contained.

By contrast

, when a nuclear facility experiences a meltdown, the effects are far worse: in 1986, the disaster in Chernobyl completely rendered the whole area uninhabitable even to

this

day, and many people contracted incurable cancer. In 2011, as a

further

example, the Fukushima plant in Japan suffered damage during a devastating earthquake, with nuclear waste spilling into the ocean and drifting uncontained as far as the American continent, doing untold damage to marine life.

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is just one way in which the negatives of nuclear energy outweigh the positives. Nuclear waste is radioactive, and it is extremely difficult to dispose of it safely.

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is because

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material can easily contaminate its surrounding, which indirectly affects the environment as well as humans. Examples of methods that have been explored throughout the years in order to dispose of nuclear include dumping it into the ocean, shooting it out into space, and simply putting it in large steel drums to bury underground.

However

, none of these

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shown to be an environmentally friendly practice.