BENEFITS

Nuclear energy offers significant benefits, which include: 

• Nuclear energy is clean; it does not pollute the water or air. It does not emit greenhouse gases like coal and oil power plants. 
• Nuclear power technology exists and does not have to be developed. 
• It is possible to generate lots of electricity from a single nuclear power plant.

CHALLENGES

There are challenges to using nuclear energy, which include: 

• The waste from nuclear energy is extremely dangerous. It has to be carefully stored for thousands of years. 
• Though the probability is small, if an accident happens at a nuclear power plant, the results can be catastrophic. 
• During the operation of nuclear power plants, radioactive waste is produced which, in turn, can be used for the production of nuclear weapons.