Nuclear power plants are very "clean burning" and their efficiency is rather staggering. Nuclear energy is produced at 80% efficiency, which means that the energy generated by nuclear fission almost equal to the energy in the production of nuclear fission in the first place is set. The concerns of people such as environmentalists with respect to the use of nuclear energy as an alternative energy source center on this waste, radioactive gas that must be included.
Despite the concerns of environmentalists, nuclear power is actually environmentally friendly alternative energy, and included the risk of radiation exit are actually quite low. There is no chance of a nuclear power plant exploded like an atomic bomb, as the special conditions and the pure Plutonium used to unleash an atomic bomb to force evil is not easy in a nuclear power plant. Be retained, in fact, if nuclear energy could become a widely accepted form of alternative energy, there would be little question as to their maintenance. Currently, six states in America generate more than half of its electrical energy needs through nuclear power, and the media are not continuously filled with gruesome horror stories of problems with power plants.
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Jane Nakano (right) from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, talks about the global demand for nuclear energy at a seminar on 13th Akihiro Sawa June in Tokyo during the 21st Century Public Policy Institute listens.
Nakano, a research associate with the energy and national security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, was at the seminar Keizai Koho Center on the 13th Organized in June to speak to discuss the outlook for the global nuclear energy and U.S. energy policy.
Before the accident, Fukushima March 2011, some 30 countries around the world serving more than 440 nuclear reactors, which account for 14 percent of global electricity. The nuclear industry has seen steady growth, with about 50 commercial reactors coming online in the last 15 years, said Nakano.
Nakano said that the Fukushima plant meltdown and radiation fallout "caused no major changes to the level of interest in nuclear energy" worldwide except in Japan.
Several countries, including Germany, Italy and Switzerland, decided to phase out its nuclear power generation to adopt or a no-nuclear policy after the nuclear crisis in Japan.
Italy has no nuclear power plants, but planned to build, and no nuclear agreement was seen more as a public voice against the policies of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, said Nakano.
Are among the countries, the continuing interest in nuclear energy, including nations that currently have not had their own reactors, but still in talks, was to build, which seemed Fukushima incident was not a major effect on their demand for nuclear energy said Nakano. Nakano also said it was "a question of when, not if, China is becoming one of the established suppliers of nuclear reactors in the global scene."
Meanwhile, the United States, no new nuclear reactors had been built since the accident at Three Mile Iceland.
The price of natural gas - a major competitor of nuclear power in the U.S. energy mix - has come very strongly in recent months, said Nakano.
An advisory committee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has proposed four options for future energy mix of Japan and the Government will build a new energy policy this summer after obtaining public comment on the options.
The options of the jury included, can call on the government, a society is in nuclear power for zero percent, 15 percent, or to seek 20 to 25 percent of the country's electricity supply by 2030, compared with 26 percent in fiscal year 2010.
The Government's energy policy before the Fukushima disaster, said the government would try to increase our dependence on nuclear energy to 45 percent of total deliveries in 2030 through the construction of new reactors.
Sawa stated that if the government tries to reduce dependence on nuclear energy, should ensure the focus on energy policy, aimed at continuous supply of energy, both in volume and economical.
Renewable energy would be a primary option if the goal is to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide from energy production, while the thermal power would be the primary option if the goal is to secure a steady supply of energy at low costs, he said.
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