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__**PRO:**__
 * Nuclear energy is a Green source of energy do not pollute the air with nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, dust or greenhouse gases. The last nuclear power plant to have a breakdown that was harmful was in Chernobyl, Ukraine on April 26th, 1986.
 * Uranium, which is the raw fuel, is less expensive than oil, natural gas, or coal.
 * One kilogram of natural uranium will yield about 20,000 times as much energy as the same amount of coal.
 * The nation's nuclear power plants produced 674 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 1996.
 * Worldwide, there are 442 nuclear power plants at work, contributing about 19 percent of the world's electricity supply.
 * "The average dose any individual in the world receives each year from all of the activities in the peaceful nuclear fuel cycle is less than 0.1 percent of the inevitable exposures he or she receives from natural radiation sources, such as cosmic rays and radon emitting building materials" ( Trudeau 59).
 * Nuclear Power Plants give jobs to people, while our unemployment rate is so high.
 * ~  ||~ Coal ||~ Oil ||~ Natural Gas ||~ Nuclear ||
 * Carbon Dioxide || 2249 || 1672 || 1135 || 0 ||
 * Sulfur Dioxide || 13 || 12 || 0.1 || 0 ||
 * Nitrogen Oxides || 6 || 4 || 1.7 || 0 ||
 * **Source:** www.epa.gov/clean energy/impacts ||
 * __CON:__**
 * Americas worst Nuclear Disaster to occur in it's borders occured near Middletown, Pa., on March 28, 1979. This was caused by the main water lines that prevent the turbines from overheating stopping due to an electric or mechanical malfunction.
 * If something where to go wrong at a nuclear power plants, the results could be disasterous and could possibly threaten the entire country.
 * The Nuclear Waste is stored underground in containers, however, the nuclear substances don't breakdown till after the metal the container holding it does.
 * If an earthquake occurs where the nuclear material is stored, it can spill the substances out and into the soil, air, water, etc. contaminating every aspect of our ecosystem.
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__**Facts:**__
 * In the 1980's, France tripled it's nuclear energy, which has dropped their pollution rate in the electrical field by 80-90%.
 * More than 400 nuclear power plants areoperating in 25 countries around the world today, supplying almost 17% of the worlds electricity.