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Nuclear power plant - Advantages and disadvantages | | Nuclear power plant - Advantages and disadvantages: Encyclopedia II - Nuclear power plant - Advantages and disadvantages | | Advantages of NPPs are:
Essentially no greenhouse gas emissions
Does not produce air pollutants such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, mercury, nitrogen oxides or particulates
The quantity of waste produced is small
Small number of accidents
Low fuel costs
Large fuel reserves
Ease of transport and stockpiling of fuel
Future designs may be small and modular (SSTAR, etc.)
Disadvantages are:
Nuclear waste produced is dangerous for thousands ...
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| | | Nuclear power plant: Encyclopedia II - Nuclear power plant - Advantages and disadvantages
Nuclear power plant - Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages of NPPs are:
- Essentially no greenhouse gas emissions
- Does not produce air pollutants such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, mercury, nitrogen oxides or particulates
- The quantity of waste produced is small
- Small number of accidents
- Low fuel costs
- Large fuel reserves
- Ease of transport and stockpiling of fuel
- Future designs may be small and modular (SSTAR, etc.)
Disadvantages are:
- Nuclear waste produced is dangerous for thousands of years
- Consequences of an accident might be disastrous
- Risk of nuclear proliferation associated with some designs
- High capital costs
- In the past long construction periods, imposing large finance costs and delaying return on investment
- High maintenance costs
- High cost of decommissioning plants
- Current designs are all large-scale
Nuclear power is highly controversial, enough so that the building of new nuclear power stations has ceased in Europe (except in Finland, Ukraine, and Russia). Almost all the advantages and disadvantages are disputed in some degree by the advocates for and against nuclear power.
The cost benefits of nuclear power are also in dispute. It is generally agreed that the capital costs of nuclear power are high and the cost of the necessary fuel is low compared to other fuel sources. Proponents claim that nuclear power has low running costs, opponents claim that the numerous safety systems required significantly increase running costs.
Disposal of spent fuel and other nuclear waste is claimed by some as an advantage of nuclear power, claiming that the waste is small in quantity compared to that generated by competing technologies, and the cost of disposal small compared to the value of the power produced. Others list it as a disadvantage, claiming that the environment cannot be adequately protected from the risk of future leakages from long-term storage.
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