Essentials of College Writing
COMM 215

Essentials of College Writing Persuasion

As a society many consciously do not realize how electrically dependent we have become. Americans are disheartened with the rising prices in oil, the dangers, and destruction coal mining has endured upon the environment, and our dependency of importing natural resources we can produce in this country to produce electrical energy. This is a reason we as American deserve to delve back into the future and get back into producing the nuclear energy. Nuclear energy has three major reasons as to society should embrace and use this form of producing our electrical needs, its low in pollution, reliable, and safe.

The first reason is low pollution. Nuclear plants do not burn fossil fuels so the plants do not give off any discharges or greenhouse gasses into the air. Coal contaminates when it is excavated, shipped to plants, stockpiled, and expended. Sixty percent of coal in the United States is obtained by strip extracting, which involves removing up to 300 feet of protecting earth and huge oil spills as of late have impacted severely the environment allowing loss of a limited and valuable commodity. Consuming oil to produce power manufactures substantial atmosphere contamination developing types of nitrogen oxides, and varying on the sulfur contents, sulfur dioxide and atmospheric particles. Hydrocarbons as well as added ozone vapors, heavy metals such as lead, and explosive natural composite play a part of ground-level ozone greenhouse gasses billowing from chimneys in these types of plant. Nuclear plants also provide water quality and aquatic life conservation.

The second reason is reliability. Nuclear power plants can operate for about 545 days continuous before they are secured for replenishing. Since, the drawdown in the nuclear arms race the United States alone has