Nuclear Power Is The Future: Here’s Why
If we want to save the planet, we must adopt nuclear technology.
I don’t know about you, but I quite like living on planet Earth. Nice, stable weather, plenty of food, and healthy ecosystems make it pretty pleasant. Unfortunately, all of that is set to change over the coming decades as global warming forces up the heat, causing deadly temperatures, catastrophic famines, disastrous droughts, and all-out ecosystem collapse. Like it or not, we are locked into a race to save the planet we call home from an apocalypse. Yet one of our best technologies to fight it is being largely ignored. You see, when you get down to the actual figures, the best energy source isn’t wind or solar power. Instead, it is nuclear! Don’t believe me? Well, let me show you.
Let’s start right at the beginning. How does nuclear power work? It begins with nuclear fuel, which is typically uranium. Nuclear fuel is “enriched” so that it contains a larger amount of the isotope uranium-235 (U-235), typically so that 5% of its mass is U-235. U-235 isn’t that radioactive on its own, but it can absorb low-energy neutrons and turn into U-236. U-236 is incredibly unstable and almost instantly splits into three free neutrons, krypton, barium, and a lot of energy in the form of heat. These neutrons can go on to cause three more atoms of U-235 to split…
