Nuclear Energy or Oil?

Nuclear Energy is extremely dangerous and toxic. It creates waste that is hard to deal with and it can wipe out a whole city if left unwatched. Yet at the same time it is the most efficient fuel source out there. The small amount of toxic waste it produces is easily sealed underground never to be touched. The amount of nuclear waste produced since the beginning of nuclear industry is only enough to fill a football field 15 yards deep. Any nuclear disaster is a rarity compared to the dozens of disasters oil has caused. Nuclear energy accounts for nearly a third of the world’s energy. And is obviously an amazing and low pollution source of energy.

         Oil is a nasty business. For foreign oil whole countries are invaded just for the purpose of unearthing the precious resource. This valuable fuel source is a must have for every modern day society. Everything runs off oil, cars, boats, and planes. The list could go on, various products of oil power each of these machines. While oil is a “fairly easy” to access resource it is an extreme pollutant. The amount of damage done to the environment just in the process of acquiring it is vast. When an accident like an oil tanker crashing happens, which it does quite frequently it seems, there is massive ecological damage if it is not sustained within minutes. The goopy oil destroys whole ecosystems and kills many animals. Not only does this hurt the ecosystem it also hurts the economy. The people who rely on the ocean as their trade are hurt severely. Fishermen are put out of jobs for months. Even the method used to clean the oil spill, corexit, is hazardous, about 4 times as hazardous as the oil itself. All of the people who had worked on the oil spill that happened on the exxon valdez have all died as a side effect from interacting with the horrible chemical. This is why in my opinion oil is far worse for the environment.