Technology

The Dawn Of The Nuclear Age

This seems obvious doesn’t it, a technology that seemed almost impossible to handle and sought to be only as a weapon of destruction is now just a step away from entering our homes. Even without our knowledge we have entered into the age of nuclear power. The age old faithful fossil fuels are at last coming to an end and the best of our last few options available for alternative energy is nuclear power. Almost half of the electricity that is being produced is only from nuclear plants spread across the nation, a large no of naval ships and submarines use nuclear fuels to keep them afloat, even many essential mining facilities use small controlled nuclear explosives for digging. And scientists are working long and hard to make them even more practically useful.

Though it may have a number of advantages it seriously is very hazardous to the whole man kind, first we don’t have an complete knowledge about these radioactive thing actually we waste almost 85% of the nuclear fuel and just make use of the rest, and second they are one hell of a lot stubborn and take centuries to decompose so their disposal is very complicated and often they are disposed quite carelessly and obviously they are extremely dangerous just one nuclear explosion can cause a damage all that it tried so hard to create. But never the less everything has its own risk and so does the nuclear fuel but danger or not it is the last hope we have at least until some other thing is found.

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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 Nature No Comments