Nuclear Power

Created by Luke Frantz

How it all Works

• Inside a nuclear reactor uranium rods are used as fuel for the machine. Heat is generated by nuclear fusion: neutrons are used to literally smash the nuclear atoms in half, and release energy in the form of heat. Water is then pumped through the reactors cooling them and causing steam to rise which then drives the turbines which drive the generators making electricity.

• http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/nuclear.htm

What Can go Wrong

• in 1986 a power plant in Chernobyl Ukraine blew its top when a group of techs decided that they would see how hot they could make it before it blew up this then caused a melt down inside the plant as a result the radiation and heat were so bad that they completely destroyed the 15 foot thick retainer wall and incinerated everything for miles around killing hundreds the facility was closed and all the forest around the plant cut down and buried to stop the spread of radiation throughout the towns around the plant the accident could have been avoided if the USSR government had put better safety equipment on the reactors and generators.

• http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/chernobyl-bg.html

Leaders in Nuclear PowerMany people would argue that the USSR has more nuclear power then the united states this is true they have more missiles then the United States but the missiles are very outdated they are missiles from the seventies while our missiles use twenty first century technology such as, a nuclear war head witch is basically a rocket that shoots into space and on re-entry the head of the missile opens and releases up to twenty nuclear laser guided missiles to the targets that are pre chosen to be bombed.

Nuclear power world wide

• 430 nuclear power plants world wide are providing 15% of the world’s total electrical power.

• http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm

United States Nuclear Supremacy

• The United States of America is one of the world leaders in the nuclear industry it has been that way since 1945 when we created the first atomic bomb. The united states has enough nuclear war heads in our fleet of “boomer subs” or trident submarines to completely destroy every large city on earth.

Government

• The democratic party of the government is trying to pass a bill that will cause the oil and coal burning factories and power plants to be taxed highly for their pollution and dangerous emissions. This could cause a lot of companies to “go green” and switch to nuclear power.

• http://news.cnet.com/greentech/?keyword=nuclear+power

Uranium and the Navy

• Each nuclear power rod or uranium rod has enough power to run a generator in a nuclear facility for as much as thirty years.

• The first nuclear power was used to power our submarines and Aircraft Carriers.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_waste

Warning

• The following is a worst case scenario of what would happen to humanity in the case of nuclear war. Even though it is a worst case scenario the effects are very real.

Boom

• If we did go to nuclear war the affects would devastate the entire world one nuclear war head alone has the destructive power to completely level new York.

• http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/tenw/nuke_war.htm

Dinner time

• But the blast is the least of the problems. Gamma radiation would spread as far as from New York to Washington D.C. causing Hundreds of thousands of people to be cooked.

The Imperfect Storm• Then the fallout which is a radioactive rain would

spread all around the globe killing hundreds of thousands of people. Fallout or radioactive rain is caused when the nuclear winds drive the debris of the blast mixed with radiation up into the clouds of a nuclear storm causing radioactive rain. The rain would cause the molecular structures of the body to begin to break down. Causing your internal organs to turn into a bloody mush, all of your skin to peel off then you would bleed out of every pore in your body and throw-up what was left of your organs causing a very painstakingly slow death.

The end

• The people who survive would wake up to quite literally hell on earth the sun would be blocked out be the huge nuclear storms that would ravage the planet. Huge world wide hurricanes would kill thousands and with no sun and huge amounts of fallout falling all around the planet all plants would die and this would eventually cause all life on earth to die out.

The Future

• In the future inner space travel ships could be powered by nuclear energy.

• Utilization of theoretical nuclear energy sources such as binary fission could possibly give humans the ability to travel unheard of distances in space at extreme speeds.

Nukes around the globe

• Although not many countries have nuclear power at hand, if the countries such as north Korea got there hands on a nuke that could go the distance they might try to engage the United States in a nuclear conflict.

The first one

• Under the command of president Franklin D. Roosevelt, the nuclear program in the US. Then under the direction of President Harry S. Truman the first nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to end the second world war.

Explanation

• As many of you viewers of my slide show may be thinking “What is this kid thinking” or “Were is he coming up with this stuff” or maybe even “Why does this concern me.” Well I would just like to let you know that all the information that is on these 20 slides is completely real and not in any way at all fictional.

• I would also like to inform you that all of this concerns our generation because we may be the ones who are involved in the next world war.

Food for thought

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Resources

• http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm• http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-

sheets/chernobyl-bg.html• http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm• http://news.cnet.com/greentech/?keyword=nuclear+

power• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_waste• http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nu

kes/tenw/nuke_war.htm