Term Papers on Nuclear Power

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Nuclear Power

     What a nice day.  A balmy sixty degrees out.  Children are outside playing ball.

What a wonderful time of the year this is.  I just hope that when mom opens up her Christmas

present tomorow, she likes it.  Scientists have proven that the Earth gets hotter and hotter each

year.  More and more people are born each day and the population of the Earth is

continuously growing.  The more and more people that populate the Earth, and the United

States of America in general will require more and more energy.  The more and more energy

that is being used, the hotter the Earth gets.  In todays technological age, the United States

faces tough decisions on energy usage to meet todays needs.

     The United States primary source of power derives from fossil fuels(National Issues

3). Fossil fuels are

remnets of the dinosuar age wich can be burned and used as fuel. Fossil fuels take millions

and millions of years to develope into a usable material. Because fossil fuels take millions of

years to develope, we will eventually run out.  Some of these fossil fuels can be found right

here, in the United States.  However, most of the fossil fuels can be found in foriegn

countries.  For example, the middle east region around the Persian Gulf.  Because of the

depleating sources of fossil fuel, the United States has become dependent on foreign sources

of fossil fuel.  If the United States remains dependent on foriegn sources of fossil fuel, other

countries will start to run out of their fossil fuel.

     Matter cannot be created or destroyed(National Issues 3).  When a fossil fuel is

burned, it is not

completely destroyed.  It undergoes a chemical and physical transformation into CO2, which

stands for carbon dioxide(National Issues 4).  Carbon dioxide is when our lungs produce

when they process

oxygen as well.

     The recent rise in global tempuratures have prompted scientists to do studies on the

Earths' tempurature changes.  Scientists have proven that the tempurature has gone up, but

they can not be certain whether or not this sort of thing happens every couple of hundered

years(National Issues 4).  So, scientists have blamed this phenomina on a theory called the

Green House Effect.

     The Green House Effect is quite simple to comphrehend.  On summers day, when the

Sun is shining down, go out to your vehicle, enter your vehicle, roll of the windows of your

vehicle, and shut your vehicle's doors.  After a few minutes, you start to get hot.  The air

becomesd hard to breathe.  Soon, you find yourself gasping for air.  You have just

experienced the Green House Effect.  Whether or not the recent succession of warm

temperatures and droughts is due to the greenhouse effect is uncertain.  But there is no

question that, if we continue on our course of burning fossil fuels, the Green House effect will

evenutally become very real, and very out of  control. The only question is when.  If we wait

until we findout, it will be too late to take steps to avert it(Cohen 274).

     Around the earth is a protective shield called the Ozone layer.  It blocks out the Suns'

harmful rays of light.  Many gases make up the Ozone layer.  One of the gasses found in the

Ozone layer should not be there.  That gas is called CO2, carbon dioxide.  When fossil fuels

are burnt, they release the CO2 that is found in the Ozone layer.  Over 75% of the CO2

found in the Ozone layer comes from human pollution by burning fossil fuels.The CO2 in

large quantities crippals the Ozone layer.  The Ozone layer still blocks the Suns harmful rays

of light, but it does not let the good rays of light leave after they have bounced off of the

Earth.  The Ozone layer keeps the good rays of light inside the atmosphere thus heating the

Earth's crust.  That is the same effect with the vehicle experiment.  The windows allowed the

Sun's good rays of light in, but did not allow them to escape thus heating up the car to the...

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