Nuclear Energy
...the United States of America. The United States uses resources that harm nature and human health. Use of these materials can cause tremendous chaos if a meltdown or glitch were to occur. While, nuclear energy seems to look like the future fuel source, some expects have not been acknowledged yet. Scientist are now working toward a new alternative that is much safer for the earth. If nuclear energy keeps increasing, the environment will notice a severe change in the quality of natural resources, and increases in the birth defects and illnesses caused from radiation. Nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is harmful to the environment.
Historically, nuclear power plants have a bleak history. For decades physicists have completed many experiments or tests to find reasons for the environmental damages the power plants have caused. The United States government is dealing with the economy to rethink the construction and the affects of nuclear plants. Over one hundred years ago, one physicist in particular started discovering different types of evidence that directed him to the idea of radioactivity. French physicists Antonie–Henri Becquerel, in 1896, "discovered the property of natural radioactivity, when he noticed the uranium compound near a photographic film cause[d] the films exposure, even in total darkness" (Tesar 374).
Taking more than forty-six years, Enrico Fermi led a group of physicists "to the world's first successful nuclear reactor built in Chicago at the university and it produced the first artificial chain reactions" (Tesar 374-5). Fifteen years later, "the first commercial nuclear plant in the United States began operating" (Tesar 375). Soon enough nuclear power was not receiving the high-quality reports it once had. In 1976, one of the states took stand to improve the effects which lead to "California pass[ing] a law, that halted all...
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