We need to use more and more of these technologies.

Yes. I totaly feel the future was stolen from me. I want space ships and moon base's. Why are people so adamant about fighting each other?

Amen.  I want a nuclear-powered future.  It's stable, it's very safe today, and it can generate tremendous power.  With new technology like fast breeder reactors, nuclear waste may not even be a particular issue in the near future.  There is literally no good reason why this is not front and center in the discussion for alternatives to fossil fuels.

I just can't stop thinking about you  while reading,  glad this write up came as a result of arguments, I think from the cost of a nuclear plant and all that the future should  be built  on sustainable  energy  not the one we will be so scared about  if any seismic  triggers occur.

I just can't stop thinking about you  while reading,  glad this write up came as a result of arguments, I think from the cost of a nuclear plant and all that the future should  be built  on sustainable  energy  not the one we will be so scared about  if any seismic  triggers occur.

It’s amazing how long myths like these stay in the public psyche, thanks for doing your bit to educate the masses!

This is amazing concept sir Thanks a lot for sharing sir.

Because even though it is clean and cheap, it is very volatile, dangerous and can cause damaging radiation to linger for thousands of years after a necular meltdown.

good post,amazing friend

Nuclear power is a great idea, by far the most efficient form of generating power and better than using it to build bombs.

The Yucca mtb in Nevada is a mess, no one wants a lot of radioactive waste buried in their state.

They can send it into space as space trash...

People will always remember the disasters you mentioned above.

Corporations like to sell oil and coal to the companies that are burning it to generate energy, hard to stop that when politics are involved. But burning things leads to pollution... 

China is building a lot of reactors that last I checked...  Uranium is cheap...

I’m a huge fan of nuclear in conjunction with solar and wind. Great write up.

Short Answer - Nuclear energy is neither unlimited nor clean. It costs a hell of a lot to make one nuclear plant

Long Answer - It really wouldn’t work. First off, it isn’t unlimited. I used to think it was a good idea myself before. But medias don’t talk enough on nuclear energy, and so we just think that it’s there running and won’t ever stop. But that’s wrong. Only 30 countries use nuclear energy, and if we continue using the same amount, we will only have enough radioactive material to last us another 60 years approx. So we will run out of uranium, just like we’re running out of oil. Deduction: If the whole world used nuclear energy, not only 30 countries, in a maximum of ten years, we’ll have ran out.

Building enough nuclear power plants would cost a hell of a lot. The cost in 2009 to build a nuclear power plant was estimated at about $9 billion per reactor. Now, nuclear power plants have around 4 reactors. That’s basically 36 billion dollars for plant. Make thousands, or even millions, of these plants and you would explode the global GDP. Many counties don’t even have enough money to build one plant.

Nuclear power plants generate nuclear waste. And we don’t know how to dispose of it because it’s just so dangerous. So what do we do with it? Leave it in giant water tanks for about 10 years, so the worst of the radiation has gone, before burying it and just leaving it there. The only way nuclear engineers have found of disposing of nuclear waste is by flying it into the Sun. We even have nuclear waste recycling programs, which reuses the nuclear waste to extract more energy out of the nuclear waste. But it’s still to radioactive. So nuclear energy isn’t clean.

In Europe, it is pretty similar. Many react against nuclear power without proposing any (viable) alternative. On top of that, the research center aiming to find better solutions for the waste issue are under-funded...

The fact that it produces waste which is active for 100s of years I think says more than enough to why we should be cautious with this technology. Also If it is used more, the likelyhood of missmanagement increases and with that the risk of accidents. I live roughly 40 kilometers away from a plant that is in the news regularly because of technical failures. Not something I fancy to be honest. There are many alternatives that we should explore more. I think more effort needs to be made in improving nuclear power technology before going all-in.

Not Only You I think Everyone should wanna need a nation that is excited about advanced technologies, not terrified. am i right @alexbeyman ?

On a rough level of numerical comparison, by design nuclear power plants are one of the safest technologies in the world. Because we are yet to see the positive impact of nuclear energy: how it transforms the energy sector of world in a big way, it is ONLY WRONG in public opinion. In a number of countries, this factor has completely decided the future for nuclear energy.

i think Nuclear energy is neither unlimited nor clean. It costs a hell of a lot to make one nuclear plant.Every country cant bear these expenses

I am afraid that technology destroys our world.

>Like being terrified of dying in a plane crash when you're vastly more likely to die in a traffic accident. 

oh well, everyone wants to be safe, thats one of the goals of humans

Yes I agree with You that We need a nation that is excited about advanced technologies, not terrified......Thank You for share your awesome article.

Nuclear power is racist! (Sorry I'm still laughing, I'll stop in a couple more posts lol).

This can be a game changer in future if we used it properly.

I am glad you are talking about this. It is the best option at the moment.

**YES**
nuclear energy is one of the great energy to be used

Interesting to note also is that during the 3-mile-island incident, the worst nuclear disaster to date in the USA, the average radiation exposure to persons within a 10-mile area was 8 millirems - just about the amount of radiation experienced during a typical medical X-ray.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident#Health_effects_and_epidemiology

If radiation is the greatest concern, you will typically absorb more by working in a large concrete building.  Or eating too many bananas.

Bottom line, its a truly negligible concern given the fantastic amount of cheaply available energy nuclear power generates, combined with the enhanced technology and security gained from 40+ years experience building and maintaining these facilities.

Of course, as with many issues, once fear (or any strong, primal emotion, really) becomes involved in human decisions, we often fail to choose the wisest or most rational course of action.

Alex - better you become the president of the country... It's the only way to let people know the value of free energy than risky solutions...

+W+

May be the nuclear energy costs more than other like solar and wind..and it also effects the atmosphere i guess in my mind.

@alexbeyman,
My country has a department of researching nuclear power! I thought it was  waste of time and after reading this, I feel I am correct! This is a small island, so I think by one plant we bring whole country to a grave danger if it fail!

Cheers~

Answer to your title question... nuclear power is freaking expensive mahn, it's not affordable where I come from.

Yeah you are right that nuclear power can produce cheap electricity and much more than solar power. Yeah less people died as compared to solar power project. But I think solar is used because its easy to generate electricity there as in nuclear power it is complex.