The Nuclear Age began in July 1945 when US tested their first nuclear bomb near Alamogordo (New Mexico). IN deember 1951 an experimental reactor produced the first electric power from atom, lighting four lights bulbs.
As of May 2007, 30 countries worldwide were operating 436 nuclears plants for electricity generations. Thirty-one new nuclear plants were under construction in 12 countries.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) todai issue its fourth in a serie of reports assessin scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understandig of climate change. This latest report recognizes the role of nuclear energy in reducing greenhouse gases. So nuclear energy is the world's largest source of emission-free energy. Therefore nuclear technology is curently used in medical diagnosis and treatement as well as in many variety of industrial applications.
On the other hand, ecologist organizations such as Greenpeace fought and are still fighting seriously against nuclear power and defend an energy system based on renewable energies ans efficiency. In its opinion despite what the nuclear industry tell us; building enough nuclear power stations to make a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would cost trillions of dollars, crease tens of thousand of tons of lethal high-level radiactive waste, contribute to further prolifaration of nuclear weapons materials. Perhaps squandering the resources to enhance other solutions. The risks from nuclear energy are real, inherent and long-lasting.
Also no country in the world has a method of isolating their wastes from the enviorenment for the hundred of thousands--of years they will remain a threat.
In my opinion the future is worriying, so I share mostly the opinion of ecologists organizations especially after Chernobil disaster. To sum up I would say we have a disturbing lookout.
VIETNAM
SWEDEN
