THINK GREEN BECAUSE NUCLEAR IS GREEN!

HA HI, i'm back with a new topic to discuss here. It is all about our good friend, MR.NUCLEAR!

well, there are many many and many perspective among us on nuclear energy. From a kid to elderly peoples their perspectives varies accroding to their level of understandings. But it is our team's utmost responsibility to enlighten them by providing advantages and also disadvantages to them. Then they will definitely choose the best option for the country!

Actually it reminds me a quote by Helen Keller, first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree and also the one who developed braille method for blind peoples. She has given a superb message to the world, the one which motivated me the most!

"I long to accomplish a great noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

In our context, our ultimate goal is to reduce global warming. It leads to adopting nuclear power plants(NPP) which doesn't emits any global warming gases. But before building any NPP, we have to learn the technology, must educate the public, send engineers to learn the technology and believe in ourselves. Hence these small (literally big) tasks must be accomplished in order to operate NPP in Malaysia.

Ok let us move on into today's topic, which is Nuclear energy is the cleanest, greenest electricity!

We can argue about this topic with various of subtopics. I would like to discuss this topic in terms of globally, economically, socially and safety. Bare with me guys, this is going to interesting.

Ok let us start to discuss, looking in terms of globally, why do we say nuclear energy is the cleanest, greenest electricity? Well, I would say and also the facts says that nuclear is clean in many terms. How about we list down them in point forms?

• One of them would be, it doesn't emit any green house gases like carbon dioside and sulfur hexafluoride.
• It is also clean because it doesn't occupy much area compared to hydro power plant, where massive area needed to built a damn for a hydro power plant (can see how much of habitat will be in jeopardy if we change the structure of the original surroundings)
• NPP only consumes 3 tonnes of uranium per year, while coal powered plants uses 3 million tonnes of coal. (don't you see how much area will be used to operate for mining purposes and also the amount of energy used to transport them?
• it is green because the fuel, uranium can be recycled (can we do that for coal based power plants?)

The basic concept of green would be sustainability of a NPP to continously generate electricity while maintaining the balance of the ecosystem. I'm very sure that nuclear power plants are clean and green. ANY DOUBTS?

ok let us look it in terms of economically. Economy = Money. Does having a NPP provides any advantage to the country? First of all, I would say that adopting nuclear technology shows that our country is also advanced technologically and Malaysians are capable of adopting and handling such technology. Do you wish to be left out in the NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE which is happening now?

By the way, having NPP has more advantages besides potraying ourselves as one of the best in the eyes of the world. The benefits are:-

• fuel of uranium costs mush more lower than the amount that our country spents for importing fossil fuels and coals
• operating a NPP creates various kind of job oppurtunity in the job market and at vasities, where we can offer courses related to nuclear technology
• who knows one day, we can even develop our own type of NPP and built it around the world

Isn't it economically saves the cost of our government in purchasing fossil fuels, coals, and building damns such as BAKUN? Apart from then that, isn't there are many propects revolving adopting this amazing technology? Despite our growing demand of power, I believe we should invest in building a NPP and operating it at a lower cost. As to accomplish our vision 2020, we have to set new stragies to become an advanced country. One of them is by powering nation with Nuclear Energy!

Alright, moving into the context of socially, a NPP can bring many changes in the way of our community can think and react. It brings the awareness of saving the planet and its habitats from extinction due global warming. Besides that, we can raise to the challenge of handling new technology and also later develop it like what countries like Japan and Korea are progressing. Nuclear technology will bring healthy competition among countries to reduce the effect of global warming and also in developing nuclear technology into a new paradigm.

In fact, at other part of the world, people treat NPP as a common building; a common sight of their society. It is also will be possible as such change to occur in our country too. Pictures below are the proofs of such event.



So you must be thinking it is CLEAN and GREEN in fact. But wait, is it safe? YES IT IS!

will you adopt a technology is will harm yourself and others? will you design a power plant which is harmful to you and others. NO! NO! and NO!!!!!!

A NPP is designed in a significant way so that it has the safest systems to cater any faulty events. And it is the safest design embarked so far! This provides an oppurtunity for a NPP to stand clean and green along the environment! One with the nature!

so guys, having a NPP brings more benfits and we have seen why do others call nuclear energy CLEAN and GREEN! the time has come my friends for us to change and raise for the global challenges. One might think that they might play a part in reducing greenhouse gases by using electric vehicles. But they must understand that the electricity supply that they use to charge their electric car is not GREEN as their car. The electricity might be generated by coal or fossil fuel powered power plants. Is that GREEN my friend? THINK ABOUT IT!

THINK GREEN! THINK NUCLEAR!

GIVE NUCLEAR A CHANCE!