What are the advantages and Disadvantages of a nuclear power station?

Answer 1

advantage: more efficient and cleaner than coal

disadvantage: any disaster at a nuclear power station would be much worse than disasater at another type of power station

Answer 2

The advantages of nuclear power is there are less greenhouse gas emissions then a coal-fired plant so nuclear plants are cleaner there is strict control over the radioactive waste produced and there are a lot of jobs at a power plant

disvantages are even though the waste is watched carefully there is still concern over nuclear proliferation from other countries

even though some people are worried that a plane could fly into a plant it would not blow-up like a bomb

there have only been two major accidents chernobyl, three mile island. chernobyl had a full core melt down and three mile had a partial core meltdown chernobyl leaked radiation which spread across europe and three mile leaked very little

wikipedia has a lot more information then i can tell you

i think nuclear power is benifical as long as it is controled

Answer 3

Pros: Well, if they could clone Hyman Rickover and put him in charge there would be many more. Cons: Well, I live just downwind of the Davis-Besse plant, which Babcock and Wilcox built just before 3 Mile Island.... It has many of the same great design features. That plant also holds the record for how many record breaking fines it has gotten from the AEC/NRC, and all of them well deserved. The problem is that the utilities are run by MBAs, not engineers, and usually by MBAs from the bottom of their class. The industry has a very long history of lying their butts off, too. See the book 'We Almost Lost Detroit'. THe waste issue is less of an issue than it seems. The antinuke crowd has explicitly said 'We're gonna kill this pig by constipating it to death', ie, going to make it impossible to put the waste anywhere. So the claims that nukes should not be allowed because there is nowhere to put the waste are somewhat less than honest. The waste can be put in RETRIEVABLE storage in Yucca mountain, and should actually be reprocessed, because only a relatively small fraction of the Uranium ';fuel' is 'burned'. By reprocessing it you can reuse that 'unburned' fuel, concentrating the actual wastes, and removing much of the long lived radioactivity. The actual waste, instead of waste + unused fuel, could be encapsulated in railroad tie sized borosilicate 'logs' where the waste is mixed with borosilicate glass [Pyrex and Kimax are trademarks for borosilicate glass] in the center, with a pure glass coating. THe logs would then be stacked in a rick, an open pile, for good natural convection cooling. Jimmy Fathead Carter killed reprocessing, because reprocessing gives plutonium, and he wanted to persuade other nations not to isolate plutonium. I guess, Nucular Phizzisist that he was, that he did not know the difference between Pu239 and Pu241. The former is what you get out of power reactors, the latter is what is used in bombs.

Answer 4

Advantage= Electricity, less fossil fuel consumption=less CO released into the atmosphere, less dependence on foreign oil and other sources of power. Less involvement in world bickering over territories.

Disadvantage= whiners complaining about possible meltdowns and nuclear disaster...(you have a better chance at having a 747 crash through your livingroom wall.) Radioactive Waste (why couldn't we just ship it to the center of the solar system once a year?) Oh yeah and the big Disadvantage, less digging. A Mole has to work to ya know... Overall the reasons against Nuclear Power are far outweighed by the benefits of it... TMI and Chernobyol where flukes...

Answer 5

The main advantage is the efficiency of the power generated. A lot of power is generated using nuclear power.

Disadvantages include workers are required and the waste is almost impossible to dispose of without destroying or harming something.

Answer 6

Advantages - more efficient than coal and hydroelectricity, doesn't contribute to global warming,

Disadvantages - radioactive waste to dispose of, limited fuel supply, risky operation

Did you know that if the world converted to nuclear energy tomorrow for all its energy needs, all of the worlds uranium supplies would be exhausted in 6 years.

Answer 7

Not much advantage. It takes ten years to build one. The local environment is destroyed to be able to build one. Where they dig for the fuel is also highly polluted. They have a limited life span. And when they are decommissioned they still cost a lot of money to keep safe...and we haven't talked about the money it takes to take care of the waste or its environmental impact.
If you think on the level of Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EROEI). The power station has a small return!

Answer 8

The advantages are it produces lots of energy without depleting natural resources.

The disadvantage is radioactive waste. What do you do with the spent rods--which will be radioactive for years and years and years into the future.

Answer 9

there are no advantages just disadvantages such as

global warming
other countries using nuclear weapons against us
and the ozone layer is getting worse all the time

Answer 10

NO ADVANTAGES BUT HIGHER PRICES FOR GREEDY SUPPLIER'S
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST ONE DAY WE WILL ALL BE GLOWING IN THE DARK