Right now, there is nothing that can compete with nuclear power. It is the most efficient energy source we have now, and probably will be for the next 100-250 years. It is capable of generating more megawatts than coal with limited waste material generation.
The only down side is the extremely long time it takes to cool the spent fuel rods, which have to be submerged in refrigerated water for an extended period of time, otherwise they will superheat and explode spreading radioactive materials. Nuclear power is cleaner than any sort of fuel consuming power plant. It also has the safest record of any power generation technology currently in use.
Coal has a lot of nasty by products that aren't all consumed producing other products like ash bricks. Right now solar panel outputs would require an inordinate amount of them to replace nuclear power. Wind is only optimal in certain places in the US so that isn't a viable alternative either.So, simple answer is no.
Fossil fuels could be used, but that is a much more difficult solution.
Decommissioning at nuclear sites which have experienced a serious accident are the most expensive and time-consuming. In the U.S. in 2011, there are 13 reactors that had permanently shut down and are in some phase of decommissioning. 202 With Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station having completed the process in 2007, after ceasing commercial electricity production in 1992.
The majority of the 15 years, was used to allow the station to naturally cool-down on its own, which makes the manual disassembly process both safer and cheaper. The nuclear power debate concerns the controversy293096 which has surrounded the deployment and use of nuclear fission reactors to generate electricity from nuclear fuel for civilian purposes. The debate about nuclear power peaked during the 1970s and 1980s, when it "reached an intensity unprecedented in the history of technology controversies", in some countries.
Proponents of nuclear energy contend that nuclear power is a sustainable energy source that reduces carbon emissions and increases energy security by decreasing dependence on imported energy sources. 31 Proponents claim that nuclear power produces virtually no conventional air pollution, such as greenhouse gases and smog, in contrast to the chief viable alternative of fossil fuel. 204 Nuclear power can produce base-load power unlike many renewables which are intermittent energy sources lacking large-scale and cheap ways of storing energy.
King Hubbert saw oil as a resource that would run out, and proposed nuclear energy as a replacement energy source. 206 Proponents claim that the risks of storing waste are small and can be further reduced by using the latest technology in newer reactors, and the operational safety record in the Western world is excellent when compared to the other major kinds of power plants. Opponents believe that nuclear power poses many threats to people and the environment.
323334 These threats include the problems of processing, transport and storage of radioactive nuclear waste, the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation and terrorism, as well as health risks and environmental damage from uranium mining. 208209 They also contend that reactors themselves are enormously complex machines where many things can and do go wrong; and there have been serious nuclear accidents. 210211 Critics do not believe that the risks of using nuclear fission as a power source can be fully offset through the development of new technology.
They also argue that when all the energy-intensive stages of the nuclear fuel chain are considered, from uranium mining to nuclear decommissioning, nuclear power is neither a low-carbon nor an economical electricity source. Arguments of economics and safety are used by both sides of the debate. As of 2013, the World Nuclear Association has said "There is unprecedented interest in renewable energy, particularly solar and wind energy, which provide electricity without giving rise to any carbon dioxide emission.
Harnessing these for electricity depends on the cost and efficiency of the technology, which is constantly improving, thus reducing costs per peak kilowatt". Renewable electricity production, from sources such as wind power and solar power, is sometimes criticized for being intermittent or variable. 216217 However, the International Energy Agency concluded that deployment of renewable technologies (RETs), when it increases the diversity of electricity sources, contributes to the flexibility of the system.
However, the report also concluded (p.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.