EAPP DEBATE

Half day rule should be implemented.

Easier on Parents
 Many schools dismiss students in the midafternoon, hours before most adults
leave work. To fill the gap, working parents have to arrange for childcare,
enroll their kids in an after-school program, or simply work less. This can
cause a lot of headaches and financial stress. A longer school day can help
alleviate some of the childcare burdens parents currently face.
Whole day class is better

 In the research paper entitled by Benefits of Whole Day Class Schedule in

Grade 12 Humanities and Social Sciences Students at Bestlink College of the
Philippines
 The results of the study showed that the whole day class schedule affects the
learnings of the students, particularly in this aspect. Students gain more
knowledge, with an average of 3.65. The whole day class schedule enhances
students’ creativity in making a project. Attendance, with an average of 3.86,
becomes beneficial to the students to improve their academic skills and
develop their social skills. The whole day class schedule develops the
students’ skills.
 The whole day class is a part of our education because it allows students to
spend longer time in school and gives the possibility to gain more knowledge
from that day.
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Nuclear energy is a safe and sustainable source of power.
 On the pros side, nuclear energy is a carbon-free electricity source (with other
environmental benefits as well!), it needs a relatively small land area to
operate, and is a great energy source for reliable baseload power for the
electric grid.
 Small land footprint - Compared to other common clean energy facilities
(particularly wind and solar power), nuclear energy plants take up far less
physical space. According to the Department of Energy, a typical nuclear
facility producing 1,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity takes up about one
square mile of space. Comparatively, a wind farm producing the same amount
of energy takes 360x more land area, and a large-scale solar farm uses 75x
more space. That’s 431 wind turbines or 3.125 million (!!!) solar panels
 High power output - Nuclear power plants produce high levels of energy
compared to most power sources (especially renewables), which makes them
a great provider of baseload electricity. . “Baseload electricity” simply means
the minimum level of energy demand on the grid over a span of time, say a
week. Nuclear has the potential to be this high-output basload source, and
we’re headed that way - since 1990, nuclear power plants have generated
20% of the US’s electricity. Additionally, nuclear is a prime candidate for
replacing current baseload electricity sources that contribute significantly to air
pollution, such as large coal plants.
  Reliable energy source - Lastly, nuclear energy is a reliable renewable energy
source based on it’s constant production and accessibility. Nuclear power
plants produce at their maximum power output more often (93% of the time)
than any other energy source, and because of this round-the-clock stability,
this makes nuclear energy an ideal source for reliable baseload electricity for
the grid.
(ethical/logical appeal, by energysage)

Nuclear energy produces minimal waste

 Nuclear fuel is extremely dense.

 It’s about 1 million times greater than that of other traditional energy sources
and because of this, the amount of used nuclear fuel is not as big as you
might think.

 All of the used nuclear fuel produced by the U.S. nuclear energy industry over
the last 60 years could fit on a football field at a depth of less than 10 yards!

 That waste can also be reprocessed and recycled, although the United States
does not currently do this.

 However, some advanced reactors designs being developed could operate on

used fuel.

 The NICE Future Initiative is a global effort under the Clean Energy
Ministerial that makes sure nuclear will be considered in developing the
advanced clean energy systems of the future.

Nuclear energy protects air quality

 Nuclear is a zero-emission clean energy source.

 It generates power through fission, which is the process of splitting uranium

atoms to produce energy. The heat released by fission is used to create
steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity without the harmful
byproducts emitted by fossil fuels.

 According to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the United States

avoided more than 471 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions in
2020. That’s the equivalent of removing 100 million cars from the road and
more than all other clean energy sources combined.

 It also keeps the air clean by removing thousands of tons of harmful air
pollutants each year that contribute to acid rain, smog, lung cancer and
cardiovascular disease.
 Solar, hydropower, wind and geothermal electricity sources also are emission-
free and are an important and growing part of our clean energy future,
but nuclear supplies more electricity than all of them combined. Nuclear
energy is the total package: low impact, high performance, zero emissions. It
 is the only form of clean air energy that can supply power around-the-clock,
anytime day or night.
 Nuclear energy has one of the lowest environmental impacts of all energy
sources, comparable with the total impacts of wind and solar. It doesn't emit
air pollution, it safely keeps its waste out of the environment and it requires a
very small amount of land. Actually, nuclear energy produces more
electricity on less land than any other clean air source.
 As with all energy facilities, certain processes used to build and fuel nuclear
plants do emit pollutants. However, independent studies find nuclear
energy’s total life cycle impacts are the same as wind, solar and
hydropower.
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