Technology has come a long way. It has brought the world to a new era, an era trusting electricity to power the nations that stretch across the globe. However, this hunger for energy has brought on problems as well. Our reliance on fossil fuels has led us to the issue of air pollution, which harms both the environment and our own personal health. Digging for these limited resources has become dangerous, to the point where accidents such as cave-ins drop down upon those mining for fuel. Lung disease from simply mining coal is responsible for the suffering of many diminished lives. Yet there is a solution, a solution that has already been implemented by modern countries, although on a small scale. Through the use of safe and nearly sustainable nuclear energy that can last hundreds of years, thousands of lives can be saved from the hazards of fossil fuels. The history of nuclear energy is relatively new. Though uranium was first discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, it was not until the late 1930’s and early 40’s before experimentation with nuclear energy began. It was around this time that nuclear fission was discovered; to put into simple terms, nuclear fission is the process of splitting an atom’s nucleus, which results in the …show more content…
They fight in the defense to remember those who suffered from the rare but major nuclear disasters that have occurred over the last century, including the Chernobyl incident and the most recent Fukushima disaster. They worry that the encouragement of nuclear power generation will lead to an increase in the manufacturing of nuclear arms and the generation of radioactive waste. “Greenpeace has always fought - and will continue to fight - vigorously against nuclear power because it is an unacceptable risk to the environment and to humanity,” states a Greenpeace article against nuclear