Advantage 2: Energy Independence

Nuclear fuels are derived from uranium and plutonium.

Uranium is available is plentiful in the United States,
and plutonium is created as a byproduct of the nuclear
fission process (see below). Replacing oil and natural
gas burning power plants with nuclear power plants
would therefore be helping with achieving energy
independence. Indeed, France gets more than three-
quarters of its electricity from nuclear power exactly
because of a nuclear-based national energy
independence policy.
 Advantage: Useful Byproducts

It is often claimed that nuclear power is renewable, and

although this is not true, some types of nuclear power
plant make their own fuel as a byproduct. Breeder type
reactors are built to maximize the creation of certain
radioactive byproducts, with the best-known example
being the design that maximizes plutonium output.
Plutonium can be processed back into fuel for nuclear
reactors. Other breeders make radioactive isotopes
that are useful to medicine.
 Processes inside
the Nuclear Power
Plants.
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The End.