Although hazardous, nuclear power plants are more environmentally friendly than coal power plants
Currently, most of the electricity we use come from fossil fuel power plants. Coal is and always has been the main source of power. Tons of coal are burnt in each power plant every day, in order to supply power for our daily needs. By 2030 the consumption will rise by 60%, with 85% of the whole world's power being produced in fossil fuel power plants. Can you imagine the environmental impact? How much carbon dioxide will be emitted into the air? An excess of sulphur in the air will cause acid rains, destroying forests and pushing the cataclysm one step further. So what could we do to stop this? Nothing, in my opinion, but some environmentalists turn their attention to nuclear power.
Nuclear has always meant disaster: Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tsar bomba (that could have fractured the Earth), Chernobyl. A single mistake made the whole zone inhabitable for decades, killed hundreds (the liquidators). But we simply can not cower and neglect nuclear power because of one accident, no matter how devastating it was. The only world-wide damage that could be done is if dozens of Nuclear power plants exploded in a chain-reaction. But what are the odds of that happening? And, after all, nuclear power plants do not emit as much carbon dioxide as coal plants. The only problem that the researchers see is uranium's price rising as known deposits are emptied out. As it is a dangerous material, prospecting for new deposits will require a lot of resources. But, in my view, it's still better than black clouds of soot above what could be a beautiful park, full of dogs and hippies.