Essays on Nuclear Energy

During this time we are going through an environmental awareness phase. This also brings the question do we actually need more nuclear power plants or not? There are a lot of positives and a lot of negatives but are the positives worth the risk to…

For over the last half-century, the production and exploit of nuclear technology has spread into many areas of the current modern society and affects each individual in one way or another. Nuclear technology has become relevant in areas of the growth of energy production, national…

Nuclear material has an impact on our lives every day but they can also be turned into killing weapons if it is found in the wrong hands becomes a threat to all of us. It is no new thing that world leaders know that nuclear…

Overview Many industrialized countries now have some form of nuclear power under control of the government. With schematics on how to produce weapons readily available, it has become increasingly likely that a terrorist group will resort to creating their own nuclear weapons in the near…

With 450 power plants in operation and producing over 14% of the electricity used worldwide. Needless to say, nuclear energy is one of the most frequently used energy on Earth. Nuclear energy, defined as the energy that is released during the process of nuclear reaction,…

Boiling water nuclear reactor cores are major sources of revenue for power producing utilities. The utility is able to maximize the amount of energy output from the nuclear reactor while minimizing the cost of the reactor operation then the utility will realize an increase in…

The results of the internal event analysis (PRA level 1) for the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant (LVNPP), which is a typical BWR, shows that the SLC plays an important role in the estimation of the total CDF (Huerta and Nú˜nez, 1994). The study was…