1. Alternative Energy blowing You Away
Nuclear Energy
Alternative Energy blowing You Away

2. Definition & Types Nuclear Energy: Types:
“The energy with in the nucleus of an atom”
Types:
Fission-
Atoms are broke apart
Heavier elements form lighter elements
Fusion-
Atoms are fused together
Lighter elements form heavier elements
Happens on the sun and all stars

3. Location Middle east South America Europe and former soviet union
66%
South America 9%
Europe and former soviet union 8%
Africa 7%
North America 6%
Asia 4%

4. Resource Benefits Largest source of emission free energy
Use of the U.S. clean air pollution
Makes so the air you are taking in is as clean as the air your putting out
Has the lowest impact to the environment
creates 20 percent of U.S. energy

5. Environmental Consequences
Uses Uranium
Non renewable resource
Does not use carbon oxide, sulfur oxide , or nitrogen oxide
Uses fossil fuels to transport and mine Uranium
Use lots of water for cooling and steaming

6. Resource Uses Uranium Water Fossil fuel power Cooling Steaming
Transportation
Drilling

7. Costs Fuel Uranium Waste management Transportation Reactors
$40 million every months
Uranium
$130 per k/g
Waste management
$96.2 billion
Transportation
$65-$85 per lbs.
Reactors
5-6 Billion

8. Applicable Legislation
Clean Air Act
Makes so the air you are taking in is as clean as the air your putting out
Energy Reorganization Act
Holds responsibility for the development and production of nuclear weapons and both the development and the safety regulation of the civilian uses of nuclear materials
Energy Policy Act
The facility must report energy give out daily
Energy efficient product
Energy saving performance
Building performance standards
Renewable energy requirements
Alterative fuel use
These things need to be met to open or stay open as a nuclear power plant

9. Extra Facts
Every 18 to 24 months, a power plant must shut down to remove its spent uranium fuel, which has become radioactive waste.
13 percent of the world’s electricity comes from nuclear power plants that emit little to no greenhouse gases.
Nuclear energy is being used in more than 30 countries around the world, and even powers Mars rovers.
More than 70 percent of America’s emission-free power comes from nuclear energy sources.
1 in 5 households and business in the U.S. are electrically powered by nuclear energy.

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