I have recently noticed that nuclear power is used in the same sentences as wind and solar energy. I don't know when this started to happen but nuclear is not even close to the same category as wind and solar energy. First of all, wind and solar are forms of renewable energy. Nuclear power is not. Nuclear power plants need Uranium 235 (U-235) as a fuel source in order to, ultimately, produce heat to spin a turbine to produce energy. Uranium 235 is a finite resource; meaning we could use it all up; meaning it is not a renewable resource; meaning it should not be in the same category or even sentence as wind and solar. On top of that, wind and solar are far less dangerous than using nuclear power plants. It is very simple, if an earthquake hit an area full of wind turbines and solar panels, the turbines and panels might be ruined but will not affect anything else. If an earthquake hits a nuclear power plant (i.e. Japan) then the reactor has a chance of melting down from uncontrollable reactions and radiation will be released into our world. If the problem is big enough, the radiation has a chance at encircling the whole world by the time it is done spreading. One problem big enough at a nuclear power plant has the opportunity to affect everything on the planet while solar and wind sources of energy simply just need to get re-built. The differences between renewable energy sources and non-renewable energy sources are just as obvious as the differences between the dangerous and the non-dangerous. Don’t get it twisted, nuclear power is finite and harmful; solar and wind are clean, harmless, and infinite.
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