Nuclear Power In Our Neighborhood.

What does our life depends on today? 1. Energy, 2. Energy and 3. Energy.

And nuclear energy power seems to be "the" topic of debate where renewable energy resources are concerned. In a present day situation burning our very limited fossil fuel for energy production does not seem like a smart option. If those fuels are in turn releasing green house gas emission upon burning to pollute our atmosphere and contribute towards global warming, there is a further more reason to be concerned about using it for the energy production. If we don't consume our fossil fuel, how do we power our high energy consuming world?How do we even start our day, and manage day to day activities without  consuming energy, let alone running industries and manufacturing? Therefor it is inevitable that we have to invent other methods of creating energy. We have been taping into solar energy, wind energy, hydro electric energy, bio-mass energy as some renewable sources of energy. Then there is Nuclear energy. 

Nuclear energy process attracts attention of such great magnitude due to its ability of formation of huge quantity of energy/power through the consumption of a small quantity of very clean burning raw material., mainly uranium. This ensures almost no emission of green house gases upon energy consumption. Loads of energy production and negligible pollution from a small quantity of fuel – in theory this sounds perfect. 

However, when I start to pull in all the facts , the big picture however does not seem so rosy. It takes an intense mining to collect the basic raw material, uranium. Countries all over the world , and especially Australia, Argentina, Canada, Brazil, China, France have gone through some serious mining to obtain this very  precious radio-active material.It takes an insane amount resources to create a safe and effective nuclear power plant that can create and manage the nuclear energy. And even after creating such an advanced, sophisticated systems, the risks associated with the nuclear accidents can be devastating, not just for us, but also for our unborn future generations. 

Most important factor to think about, however,  is the radio active waste that has been generated. Current;y we do not have an answer to managing radioactive waste. Our answer to managing radio active waste is to seal it into the special containers and store the containers deep inside the ground under controlled ( cold) temperatures. They will lie there for an eternity. We are just hoping that the radio active waste will lie there safely without causing any unfathomable havoc in future. But we can only hope for that. We have no definite way of making sure of that. So are we being responsible towards our environment, towards so many other species that exist with us,  towards our unborn future generation?

I know I would feel cheated if any other species left their "hazardous waste" for me to take care of without being responsible about it.And therefore, I want to think this over again and again, before I do this to them. 

Most importantly,  if we don’t realize where to stop with our energy consumption, even the nuclear power  may not be enough for our need of energy production, and a day will come when we will have all the uranium on the earth consumed, unacceptably hazardous waste on our hands and a need to look for more energy generating options. It makes me wonder, is there a reason, we witness dystopian cities in most of our futuristic visions and movies?Is our sixth sense trying to tell us something??