Nuclear power: A breakthrough or a curse? History can tell
Power and energy are now so essential to our lives and the different forms of power and energy surrounding us are vital to our survival, one of the most famous forms of energy now is nuclear energy, mostly known for being a clean source of energy that will never end like oil. But there is a dark side to nuclear power and we've seen it multiple times since the end of WWII, judge by yourself whether it is more useful than harmful after getting to know the full story first to have all the answers and the hidden secrets. Find out about Nuclear Energy and its history passing by the Atomic Bomb and its horrible effect on history all the way to the Chernobyl disaster that got nearly all of Europe in danger due to one small error.
Nuclear Power
1943 to Present
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay, and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced by nuclear fission of uranium and plutonium.
Atomic Bomb
Monday Aug 6, 1945 to Present
A nuclear weapon (also called an atom bomb, nuke, atomic bomb, nuclear warhead, A-bomb, or nuclear bomb) is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb). Both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first test of a fission ("atomic") bomb released an amount of energy approximately equal to 20,000 tons of TNT (84 TJ). The first thermonuclear ("hydrogen") bomb test released energy approximately equal to 10 million tons of TNT (42 PJ). A thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than 2,400 pounds (1,100 kg) can release energy equal to more than 1.2 million tons of TNT (5.0 PJ). A nuclear device no larger than traditional bombs can devastate an entire city by blast, fire, and radiation. Since they are weapons of mass destruction, the proliferation of nuclear weapons is a focus of international relations policy.
Chernobyl disaster
Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a closed nuclear power plant near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, 16.5 kilometers (10 mi) northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 kilometers (10 mi) from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about 100 kilometers (62 mi) north of Kyiv. It was cooled by an engineered pond, which is fed by the Pripyat River about 5 kilometers (3 mi) northwest from its juncture with the Dnieper.