Friday, January 11, 2013



Nuclear vs. Foreign and Domestic Oil.

In my opinion, I think nuclear energy is worser then Foreign and domestic oil. 

Nuclear energy is when you split atoms apart to get a highly toxic substance. Domestic oil is oil that we get from our country. Last, but not least, Foreign oil is what we get from foreign countries. 

They are all bad for our environment, but some how we still use all of them to power our planet. 

Oil spills are highly expensive to clean up and also it takes a long time. Plus, the thing they use to clean it up, Corexit, is 4x more toxic then oil itself. 

When there is an oil spill often times you can clean up the mess in like a couple of years. Not Nuclear energy though. 

But to be honest I think nothing is worser than nuclear energy. 

The accident that happened in Chernobyl was all cause by nuclear energy. In 1986, the accident called Chernobyl happened. This is important because it still affect us till this very day. Chernobyl was a nuclear power plant that its reactor exploded. It cause the radiation to leak into the atmosphere and into towns. 

The chernobyl incident was tragic. Ever since that accident happened there was a lot of kids being born with mental disabilities. 

In my opinion, Nuclear energy is extremely dangerous and the crazy thing about it is that we have like many nuclear power plants in the United States. Even though domestic and foreign creates problems as well, I will still choose them over nuclear energy. 







2 comments:

  1. I agree with you. Oil spills affect more the environment than it affect us.

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  2. This was a very good blog with great detail and good information. I think that oil of worse then nuclear though because it effects use more then the nuclear waste. It has only ended areas of the world in two places. We are still cleaning up multiple oil spills in the US and around the world.

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