What are the drawbacks and advantages of fission power plants?

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first i would like to give you advantages

advantages : 1) fission energy releases a highly reduced amount of global warming gases into air ,resulting in a slow rate of global warming ang pollution

2) day by day our population is increasing,so in order to meet their electrical needs,inducstrial cities we need immense power.Fission plants will produce that amount of power in a quick time

3) it's operating cost is also low

4) in the near future we are going to develope a technology to recycle the waste water from fission plants

drawbacks:

1) if an accident is occured in the plant,then due to high production of heat in a quick time the entire plant will destroy

2)fission plants produce radiation which is a high risk for the workers in the plant

3) to construct a power plant we need to invest a huge amount of money for its safetiness

4) there is a high risk with the contamination of the nuclear wastes

genius_generous answered 1 year ago

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