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Nuclear energy. Everyone has heard of it , but do we really know the full effects of nuclear energy on the enviroment. Nuclear energy is harmfull to the enviroment it releases radiation, it warms streams that’s water are used to cool the reactors core, it also is said to release no carbon dioxide, this is true but cabon dioxide is releasd in mining the uranium and it is released in storing and trucking of the waste products.

Chernobyl the name of the city destroyed by nuclear radiation its memory scorched into earth and our memorys. Japan 2011 a tsunami hit the fukushima nuclear power palnt  and radiation has split out in all directions . radiation  harms the enviroment because it changes “dna” this can cause cancer ,trees to rot  and animals to die . it can get into food  and cause and can cause a family to have genetic mutations for many decades. Currently  the only way to stop radiation is  by encasing the source in lead .however as seen at chernobyl once radiation has been able to escape the effects can take hundreds of years to revearse fully.the radiation can also be caught in couds and form “acid rain” this can melt throught roves and stautes and many more things

However human lives are not the only lives being lost in the struggle against nuclear power. When the atoms of a nuclear are collided or split it creates a masive amout of heat  this heat is cooled down by sucking fresh cld water out of streams and pumped around the core  this water is then pupmed back out into the strem 27oc  hotter this heat is killing fish life , plant life and destroying the streams ecosyatems. This affect can snowball if nothing is done.

Carbon dixoide “greenhouse gas” Nuclear power is a clean green power it does not release carbon dioxide . True but deceving although the actual generating of power does not emmit carbo dioxide , there are alot of things that the nuclear powerplant need tht do. Uranium is used in the reactor core this has to be mined and trucked or shipped. To power the machienes that mine, petrol is used . nuclear power plants have to be built this and all of the entity emit carbon dioxide , so can it really be said that a nuclear power plant does not emmit carbon dioxide.

Chernobyl , eco systems, carbon dioxide, all have or will affect the enviroment, nuclear energy is not clean energy that is made out to be. It has cost lives , money and the enviroment . I can leave you only with one question , is nuclear power worth the enviroment ?.