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  • 19 of 19 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    HungryHungarian

    5 Stars Climate Change and the 'N' Word 17/12/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Massive reduction on CO2 emissions, large scale source of energy

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Solid long term waste, expense. Far outweighed by advantages.

    **This is an essay I have written as part of my Physics MSci degree at Imperial College London. All rights on its use are reserved. Note to Imperial markers: if, in your check to make sure I haven't plagiarised anyone, you come across this, I am the same person!** I am putting this on Ciao as I would like some feedback, and I just lurve expressing my opinions! This essay is also hosted at my website: http://www.howtopowertheworld.com/nuclea​r-power-essay-1.html Climate Change and the "N" Word Placing the Blame The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a United Nations and World ... more
  • 32 of 32 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Coloneljohn

    Member since 11/06/2004

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    5 Stars Which way foreward? Review with images 30/04/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Less greenhouse gas

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Other perceived problems

    The question placed before this assembly is "Do we need more Nuclear power stations?" It must be noted that we do seem to be overwhelmed with stories of "Global Warming" There is scarcely a news programme that does not mention this at least once. We will not under any circumstances give up our cars, so some other method or reducing greenhouse gas emissions must be found. And that leads to industry and particularly power generation. In attempting to answer this question I will first make the assumption that we are all agreed that there is a need in this country for further generating capacity ... more
  • 117 of 117 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Claiiiree

    Member since 11/12/2005

    Reviews written: 51

    3 Stars Lacking in Energy? Review with images 09/04/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Less CO2 Emissions, Less raw materials, relatively safe records

    Disadvantages Disadvantages If disaster strikes, it is high profile, decommissioning costs, solid wastes need to be stored for a long time

    Answering the question: "Do we need more Nuclear Power Stations?" highlights the dilemma between generating enough energy to satisfy our lifestyle, and the lifestyle of developing countries; against the human aspect of whether we actually want Nuclear Power stations on our land, the negative perceptions that most people have, (after the disasters at Three Mile Island and at Chernobyl in the 1970s/1980s) (on the day I was born). Energy and Fossil Fuel use ☼☼☼☼☼ϒ8;☼☼☼☼☼☼ To answer the question involves a brief look at the ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    num13er

    3 Stars What part of cancerous dont you get ? 23/12/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages We can speed up the inevitable demise of this useless race

    Disadvantages Disadvantages I'm a part of this useless race just like those i care about

    This ones kind of an easy one for me to answer and personally it should be an easy one for anyone. Let one person tell me its a great idea to increase our reliance on a radioactive and heavily pollutive race with a straight face or for that matter an actually fully functional brain. Places like this arent gonna effect the old its true, but some of you have kids who are gonna be there when this sort of pollution well and truely hits the fan. I'm probably going to be around when this world is a thriving cancer and lung infected hell hole. That's just my luck though, i get hit with centuries of ... more
  • 15 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    jeffbobs

    4 Stars needs to be stopped before its to late! Review with images 14/12/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages cheap

    Disadvantages Disadvantages to dangerous

    To be honest it is the cheapest way for power, but only because of how many people there are around. Over population has made this time come of lots of nuclear power. In the south they can’t have power stations there because the air is already too high in it to have a plant there. And same thing in many other places. But still it should be stopped. Now there are quite a few ways of making energy instead of such harsh manors, but they are not effective for the amount of money the government WANT to spend. Because lets face it all the government is all about is getting money and making false ... more
  • 1 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    tartychar

    5 Stars i dont think so 15/08/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages clean

    Disadvantages Disadvantages nuclear waste, protentional dangerous

    britain has so many other sources of engery for a small country compaired to others we have no shortage of water so hydro power is another clean option also the use of wind turbines is also away of cleaner cheeper alteratives the problem i have found wif nuclear power in britain is the maintainace of these power staions that where built in the sixties are draining the money for other form of resources in finding other means and ways of other cheeper and safer alternatives another problem wif nuclear engery is the waste from the power stations their only so much you can do wif the waste 1 is ... more
  • 22 of 22 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    gusgusrule

    5 Stars Is Britain facing an "energy crisis"? 20/06/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Eradication of fossil fuels means less pollution

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Eradication of fossil fuels mean less energy production!

    The UK has always had a suitable amount of energy. In the middle ages, water in rivers was used to turn water in water wheels and in the early nineteenth century, steam was used from coal, enabling Britain to become the world’s first industrialised country. As time went on however, new methods of energy needed to be found. Existing methods were becoming outdated and couldn’t meet demands or, in some cases, they were simply running out. By 1950 inparticular, for example the cheap and accessible reserves of coal were becoming short, so new methods of energy needed to be found. The existing ... more
  • 30 of 30 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    C_W_Monkey

    5 Stars Yes, Yes we do (update) 19/06/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages It would boost our power

    Disadvantages Disadvantages They only provide Baseline

    Apology: I said plutonium is not very radioactive. This is a lie, it is quite radioactive and all the arguments I've stated on this are wrong. But I don't have time to go through and alter the review yet, I will do soon though. Both plutonium and Uranium are very radioactive and could be used to make dirty bombs. I'm rather stupid because I'm a physicist and should know these things. I realised 5 minutes after I wrote it while I was on the way to work and this was far too rushed. Nuclear power. Something which has caused concern and debate accross the world. But what is nuclear power? How does ... more
  • 11 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Anonymousguest

    3 Stars New Cleaner Power...... 15/03/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages No we dont

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Read on.....

    In response to the people that suggest nuclear power plants are not a problem or a threat, have you actually really considered the long term effects of them? Nuclear power plants produce loads of toxic waste most of which gets dumped at sea, hence y the water round the plants is always that little bit warmer. They have great co2 emissions which helps to the lovely warming up of the atmosphere, and causes respiratory problems and skin cancer for people and animals. Another reason im all against nuclear power is that the plants are a sitting target for the likes of terrorists, bombing one would ... more
  • 73 of 73 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Scott_Howitt

    1 Star Dr Stangelove Likes Nukes 06/06/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Clean, plentiful, cheap

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Could cause you to glow in the dark

    I am registered with the CIA. Though I can mix a perfect martini and I like to think that I drive as well as 007, my registration is due to the fact that I know how to make nuclear weapons. It is really quite simple mind you. All that you need is a little bit of two Uranium isotopes. Uranium-235 and Uranium-238 are usually the isotopes of choice. When these two different isotopes are introduced to each other, neutrons are exchanged. When Uranium-235 captures an extra neutron the atom become unstable and splits apart releasing enormous amounts of energy and creates Plutonium-239. In an atomic ... more
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