Why Nuclear Power Plants Are Not a Threat in America

A lot of people are scared of nuclear power plants in American society. The trigger of being scared by these power plants come from various different conditioners from early American media, such as false scares published in newspapers, and also Hollywood movies that contribute to meltdowns as being globally devastating.

However, in American society nuclear power is actually very safe, and is contained well under the supervision of trained professionals, and are heavily secured by private security. There are many different security methods to deter acts of destruction against a nuclear power plant such as armed officers, containment towers, surveillance cameras, sensor alarms, and much, much more. The security necessary is somewhat due to the amount of fear associated with nuclear power plants from the media and other sources. Security is there to deter extremists whom would try to destroy the nuclear power plant, or hurt it in any other way. Also, one other way that nuclear power plants secure a nulcear reactor is to submerge it in water, which also helps cool the nuclear reactor as well.

Nuclear power plants essentially use Uranium, a non-weapons grade source to help fuel their nuclear power plant. Uranium is also very heavily abundant in their resources, and it 500 times more common than gold according to Wikipedia. The fuel source that people are essentially afraid is plutonium, a weapons-grade element that we are actually of search in Iraq as we speak right now.

Another threat people take to nuclear power plants aside from terrorist or extremist attacks are economic costs. Nuclear power plants do in fact cost a large sum of money to build. Yet, the costs for a nuclear power plant are actually lower than it would be to essentially run a coal-fuelled or gas-fuelled plant instead.

Nuclear power is also heavily checked before use by a government agency known as the NRC, or Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission looks at many different aspects of the nuclear power industry they are currently looking at. Some aspects include the reactors, the wastes, and the transportation of exportations and importations to or from the nuclear power plant. There are specific and strictly interpreted rules that nuclear power plants must comply to in order to keep their nuclear power plant running.

There have been some incidents regarding nuclear power, but hasn't there always been some sort of incident when regarding something with such a high amount of power, both in energy and other fields as well? One of the incidents took place in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986. Chernobyl is located in the Soviet Union, and this disaster took place since the Soviet Union did not comply with regulations and had flaws in the reactors design. Over all, this took place in the Soviet Union, and we are merely discussing nuclear power in regards to the U.S.

Also, you know those huge towers that most people think of when you think of a nuclear power reactor? Those towers are in fact not nuclear reactors! Those towers are cooling towers to help cool the nuclear reactor, as well as contain them. The nuclear reactor itself is much small and is contained inside of these towers, which is heavily guarded by armed officers (usually), and other security precautions such as alarms and surveillance cameras.

An added bonus to having a nuclear power plant in your city is that it may also put more money into the school district and town in general. Such an example is Wading River on Long Island, where the company that essentially owned the power plant pumped $12 million into the school district. The power plant, however, never opened up due to protests.

So, as long as the NRA is regulating the use of nuclear power by these nuclear power plants, you have nothing to worry about. Nuclear power is so powerful it can power whole cities, and it costs less over time to operate when compared to a coal-fulled plants and gas-fuelled power plants. There is no reason, other than the media circus, to be afraid of nuclear power. And we all now how the media distorts even the most of common things.