Nuclear Power

NUCLEAR POWER

Nuclear energy.  Some like it, some don’t.  I’m here to tell you why I think there is a bit of good but mostly BAD.

Nuclear power could produce one quarter of New Zealand's power if we only had one nuclear power station!  Plus you only need a little bit of the secret ingredient…uranium!  As always there is a catch.  There is hardly any uranium on Earth.  The more uranium the more power.

Amazingly it doesn’t give off greenhouse gas…but there is something more dangerous…RADIOACTIVE WASTE is the dangerous stuff and it can be hazardous for over ONE THOUSAND YEARS!  How they store it is risky.  Underground and in the sea.  I mean are you crazy!  If there is an earthquake it will come bubbling up.

And this is the important part, the cooling system!  If it breaks down then all the radioactive waste will spread everywhere.  At a nuclear power station called Chernobyl, their cooling systems broke down and people still can’t live near Chernobyl.  This happened over 20 years ago!

So they could be good for New Zealand but what happens if it breaks down?  Although they have a good side I’m against them and these are my reasons.

By Sophie