Nuclear Power Is Foe
Riley Hart and Amelia Pierce
What Is Nuclear Power?
All About The Money
"Nuclear Power is too costly to matter" Nuclear power costs a lot of money in construction. A normal cost for a reactor which is the main part in nuclear power costs around $5 billion dollars. Some places won't even reveal how much the reactor costs because it's that high! In North Carolina, Duke Power won't reveal an estimated cost. "What Duke seems to be saying is that if suppliers knew just how expensive the plant is, they would want a bigger piece of the pie." Just two months before the power plant had been built they shared that it was estimated to be around 6 billion or 8 billion. Now they are saying it is confidential which leads us to believe it is higher than the 6 billion to 8 billion range. How do you solve the problem with the cost? You just don't use nuclear power. There are many other sources of energy that are cheaper. Like solar Power or wind power.
Wind power
Nucler power is not the answer
Solar power
Chernobyl survivor
According to one of the survivors of Chernobyl Sasha Yuvchenko he said " All he heard was a heavy thud" then he mentioned not shortly after he felt a huge wave come through. Then all the metal walls had bent like rubber. He then looked up and there was no celling. He said " You don't feel anything at the time" Because they had no idea there was so much radiation around them. About an hour later he said he started to vomit uncontrollably. A couple of hours later he couldn't even walk but he didn't know what had caused it yet because he didn't know he was exposed to radiation so he was taken to the hospital. They couldn't help him so from there he was sent to a specialised treatment centre in Moscow. When he arrived all of his hair started to fall out, he was getting rashes, having breathing problem's and had to get a transplant due to him throwing up. The radiation had gnawed at his flesh causing deep tissue. Therefore his skin turned violet black. Yuvchenko was told by the doctors "We advised you not to have another child because of the risk that the child would develop leukaemia. The doctors also said "The doctors told me that if you've survived this, you shouldn't worry about anything else." And he survived.
Nuclear damage
Nuclear Power Can Cause Great Damage
Waste Waste Waste!
Cancer
Solar power is way safer
Chernobly Isn't the Only One
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