Nuclear Power

Nuclear Power

Introduction

This paper shows the discussion how nuclear power is important and what government of United Kingdom is doing to implement nuclear power as the energy source. There is a strong recommendation that nuclear power should overcome the future energy needs of United Kingdom in many ways.

There was a threat which nuclear industry made in the past and which was not materialized. There are many issues with the supplies of future energy. Energy Security has two distinct parts such reliability and resilience. The reliability tends to allow the user to use the energy that they require and access the energy which meet the requirements of customers. The other part resilience is that the supply of energy possesses the ability to meet the changes and access to the people according to their needs. If we consider the sum of two parts, it means that energy should be provided with security to the people in order to satisfy them by fulfilling their satisfaction.

Discussion

Carbon dioxide Emissions

UK is dependent on fossil fuels in order to develop the energy, according to the sources of 2004. The process is simple as fossil fuels are burnt to create energy. There is an alternative of fossil fuels which are bio fuels such as algae fuels. In algae fuels, algae are used as its natural deposits. Many companies and organizations are focusing to raise the production of algae fuels and make it more valuable to the market. Fossil fuels release CO2 on their burning and in a similar way Harvested algae also produces CO2 when burnt. Every other day brings new ideas and revolutions and technology is getting advanced day by day. Government and private companies are putting efforts on the manufacture of new products.

High oil prices

Because of high oil prices, completion between different products and world food crises has also developed interest in production of algae. It can be used for making vegetable oil, bio diesel, bio ethanol, bio gasoline, bio methanol, bio butane and other bio fuels. It can be cultivated from the land which is not suitable for agriculture. The characteristics of algae fuels include that fresh water resources are not affected by those fuels. They can be produced by using sea water, and waste water. They are non toxic to the environment.

Costs factors

Algae costs per unit mass in year 2010 were $5000/tone. These fuels operated at high capital and operating costs and provided 10 to 100 times more energy than other crop fuels of this generation. One of the bio fuels company claimed that algae can produce more oil than other fuel crops because algal organism used sunlight to produce lipids or oil. The United Kingdom of Energy Department suggested that if algae fuels replaced the petroleum fuels in the country it would require 15000 sq miles which could be the 0.42% of the map of the country and or it can cover half of the land area of Maine. The head of the Algal Biomass Organization suggested that, by 2018 algae ...