Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Energy

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Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Energy

• Nichole Rimes
• Greg Montano
• Gregory Vering

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What is Fossil Fuel?

• Oil
• Natural Gas
• Coal
• It supplies 88 of the worlds Energy
• The Worlds Fossil fuel resources will be
  exhausted in approximately 500 years

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How Fossil Fuels Produce Energy...
Chemical Heat Mechanical
Electrical
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What is nuclear Fuel?

• Uranium
• Plutonium
• In 2001 nuclear electricity generation was 2544
  billion kilowatt hours, more than all electricity
  generated worldwide, more than all electricity
  generated worldwide in 1961

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How Nuclear Fuels Produce Energy...
Nuclear Heat Mechanical
Electrical
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Professional Issues

• Safety
• Security
• Money
• Research Focus
• Technical Competence

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Legal Issues

• Budget Requirement
• Safety
• Security
• Importing/Exporting of Resources
• Environmental Responsibility

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Ethical Issues

• Nuclear Proliferation
• Future Generations
• Environment (Short term/Long term)
• Nuclear Waste
• Possible Catastrophe

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Stakeholders

• Communities
• Industries
• Nations
• Earth
• Everybody

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Options for the future

• Continue using our non-renewable resources until
  they are exhausted
• Begin to move away from Nuclear and Fossil fuels
  to save what we have and protect the environment

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Wait until our resources run out

• Consequences
• Relatively Cheap
• Very easy to use
• Abundantly available
• Air pollution
• Global warming
• Acid rain
• Depletion of resources
• Oil spills/slicks
• Waste management
• Individual Rights/Fairness
• Freedom to Choose
• Health
• Common Good
• Affordable Energy

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Switch to Renewable Resources

• Consequences
• Save resources, energy and environment
• Infinitely Available
• Cost money due to research and implementation
• Individual Rights/Fairness
• Health
• Economic Burden
• Common Good
• Better Environmental Conditions
• Better Health

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Final Decision

• Begin to move away from Nuclear and Fossil fuels
  to save what we have and protect the environment