Alternative Energy Source Analysis

Over the past couple decades nuclear power plants have become a more prominent sight within our countries great rolling landscapes. With the improving technology and the search for an alternative energy source, this topic is much overdue. Due to the depleting coal and natural gas supply the time is now to look to nuclear energy. To become the dominant supplier of energy to the world 's citizens.

Like all the other forms of alternative energy there is a required force that needs to be present in able to produce energy. In this case it is Uranium. Uranium is a natural element found in the earth that is mined and ground up with oxygen to produce small uranium dioxide tablets that are then used for fuel. Nuclear engineers then place the tablets into a metal tube that is lined with ceramic called a fuel rod. When the rods are entered into the reactor they are put under extreme temperatures till the atoms within the uranium begin to split creating a large excess of energy or in other words heat. As heat is

“The production of electric energy is continuous. A nuclear power plant is generating electricity for almost 90% of annual time. It reduces the price volatility of other fuels such as petrol” ( Nuclear Energy.Net 2014). Compared to other alternative energy sources nuclear power plants are almost creating power while their counterparts are not making power all the time because a various factors like solar panels do not make power at night and wind turbines can’t make power when there is not enough wind. As the plant makes energy it is actually creating a clean burn which comes out the smoke stacks. The smoke coming out the top is actually not smoke at all. Contradictory to popular belief, it is actually steam which reduces the carbon footprint when producing electricity compared to traditional energy producing methods using fossil