• Nuclear power is a clean and efficient way of boiling water to make steam,

which turns turbines to produce electricity. 

• Nuclear power plants use low-enriched uranium fuel to produce electricity
through a process called fission

THE IMPACT
• The environmental impact of nuclear power results from the nuclear fuel
cycle, operation, and the effects of nuclear accidents
• The greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear fission power are much smaller
than those associated with coal, oil and gas, and the routine health risks are
much smaller than those associated with coal. However, there is a potential
risk if containment fails,which in nuclear reactors can be brought about by
overheated fuels melting and releasing large quantities of fission products
into the environment. 
Moderate amounts of low-level waste are through chemical and volume control system (CVCS). This
includes gas, liquid, and solid waste produced through the process of purifying the water through
evaporation. 

Only about 4 percent of the total emission of nitrogen oxides is caused by power
plants. However, when carried along by wind currents, sulfur compounds and
nitrogen oxides combine with the water vapor in the atmosphere to form sulfuric
and nitric acids as aerosols which precipitate back to earth with rain or snow long
distances from the point of origin. This phenomenon, known as acid rain,

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986, at the

No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of
the Ukrainian SSR  It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history both in terms of cost and
casualties,[3] and is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity
—on the International Nuclear Event Scale
31 people died as a direct result of the Chernobyl accident;
The number of people who were impacted over long-term radiation exposure
is more difficult to discern and remains highly contested. 
The number of deaths is said to be around 9000 but Radiation scientists
provide some of highest estimates, predicting between 30,000-60,000 deaths
and the radiation and 3.5 milion ppl were contaminted. he thyroid gland naturally
accumulates iodine from the blood stream, as a normal functioning mechanism, and is the organ most
likely to develop cancer after exposure to iodine-131.