Nuclear power is not safe enough to be accepted as one of the best energy resources. Experts cannot be one hundred percent sure that an accident won't occur. Even a tiny accident will cause very serious problems, and have bad consequences. This type of energy is very dangerous because it is very difficult to manage when there is an accident. As a matter of fact, accidents can happen all the time, because the people that work in a nuclear plant have to be very well trained, very intelligent, and ready to confront any accident that may occur and, as we all know, humans are not perfect, and they make mistakes. The problem is that those mistakes can destroy all kinds of life in a town or city. In more than thirty-five years, the United States nuclear power plants have produced more than 32,000 metric tons of nuclear waste. If stacked end to end it would cover a football field to a depth of about four yards. ("High" 1-2)

Nuclear power is obtained by different combinations of atoms, called fission. As professor John McCarthy explains in his web site, nuclear power can

be produced by the fission of uranium, plutonium, thorium, hydrogen or helium. However, the most common kind of fission used is the fission of uranium. (McCarthy 1) The Encyclopedia Britannica Online states that there are different kinds of nuclear reactors, machines that contain fission products, and obtain energy from the atoms.

("Energy" 7)

In 1972, the Atomic Energy Commission authorized a study that ended up making a report called "Reactors Safety Study" or "WASH 1400". It found out that the probability of a release of chemicals was very low, however, it was unpredictable. Experts said: "If probabilistic risk assessment predicts that a reactor is subject to, say, one failure in 10,000 years, there is no way to prove that statement with only a few, or even 10,000 years of experience." ("Conversion" 379)

David Marples explains in his book Chernobyl & Nuclear Power in the USSR that Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant that was located in a town near several important cities in Ukraine, such as Kiev, was badly built just to make the construction cheaper. In 1976, there were problems with the workers, because the salaries paid were not enough. In addition to that, most of the workers were young people, and some of them inexperienced. (115-119)

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