I have to write a research paper over nuclear power, and we need some type of interview or survey, so I thought why not come here? So, do the member of The Escapist support the idea of nuclear power? Why or why not? Or you can just vote...
Poll: College Research Paper Survery - Nuclear Power
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Yes, I support Nuclear power.
Relatively clean energy, and useful until we perfect Fusion power.
Then this race will be nigh-on unstoppable.
Yes, I support Nuclear power.
Relatively clean energy, and useful until we perfect Fusion power.
Then this race will be nigh-on unstoppable.
If you need a survey, internet forums - especially one where people can vote without posting their reasons why will be highly frowned upon in a tertiary educational institute. My suggestion, don't do it.
My recommendation is to use convergent interviewing [http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/iview.html]. Basically interview someone in your intended target population and then ask that person to refer you to someone of a completely different viewpoint, and repeat until you no longer learn anything new. All the information you need should be in that link.
Anything else, feel free to ask. However I'm going to bed now. So I won't reply until the morning. Cheers and good luck.
My recommendation is to use convergent interviewing [http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/iview.html]. Basically interview someone in your intended target population and then ask that person to refer you to someone of a completely different viewpoint, and repeat until you no longer learn anything new. All the information you need should be in that link.
Anything else, feel free to ask. However I'm going to bed now. So I won't reply until the morning. Cheers and good luck.
Yes as a temporary measure. I think we need to focus on renewable energy as, at the moment, we do not have the technology for it to provide more than about 20% of our needs. Nuclear power will be important in maintaining our infrastructure while renewable's are worked on.
Nope. Yes the immediate benefits are clean energy, but we don't know what to do with the waste. All we can do currently is stick the waste in a whacking great big thing of lead and bury it for thousands of years.
Clean: Yes. But sustainable it is not.
Britain has 19 Nuclear Reactors which supply 20% of Britain's electricity. We're going to need a hell of a lot more nuclear reactors to power the rest of the country, let alone the world. The amount of waste from such a venture will be insane.
Perhaps as a temporary source of power, supporting the transition from Fossil Fuels to Renewables I can support it. But not forever
Clean: Yes. But sustainable it is not.
Britain has 19 Nuclear Reactors which supply 20% of Britain's electricity. We're going to need a hell of a lot more nuclear reactors to power the rest of the country, let alone the world. The amount of waste from such a venture will be insane.
Perhaps as a temporary source of power, supporting the transition from Fossil Fuels to Renewables I can support it. But not forever
Oh, i remember i did poll on that a couple of months ago. Yes, i do support nuclear power, as do many others here. For these reasons:
- Clean energy, and lots of it. Plus, we don't really have any alternative.
- Waste can actually be dealt with in multiple ways besides stockpiling it.
- Chernobyl reactor was outrageously badly designed. Normal reactors don't go "BOOM" all of sudden.
- Clean energy, and lots of it. Plus, we don't really have any alternative.
- Waste can actually be dealt with in multiple ways besides stockpiling it.
- Chernobyl reactor was outrageously badly designed. Normal reactors don't go "BOOM" all of sudden.
I'll reitterate what a few people have said already, and say yes, but only in the short to medium term. Renewables are the only real way forward, but they're simply not efficient, reliable or cheap enough to be a major source of production at the moment. Continued reliance on Fossil Fuels is simply not an option, so Nuclear is the obvious way forward, while continuing to ramp up investment into alternate sources.
I don't give a shit, I just need some sort of survey. I don't really care how accurate or inaccurate it is. If I go on the street and ask random people I'll get horribly inaccurate results... It is for an english class and I'm a CIS major, plus my teacher can barely figure out how to turn on a damn computer...xmetatr0nx said:
In high school this would probably be okay as a survey (it all depends on how much effort they actually want you to put into it)*. Anyway, I'm a little bit on the fence about nuclear power. I'm not really worried about the dangers of explosion, but more so about the fact that it is not sustainable and produces a lot of waste. It's probably better than using fossil fuels, though.
The reason I don't really like it is that I think we should eventually (and when I say "eventually" I mean "ASAP") switch to more sustainable methods like solar, wind and water energy. I'd say nuclear power might be good to use until we have these things, but it seems like supporting nuclear power will only delay the ubiquitous arrival of better, greener power. My verdict: don't build any new nuclear power plants, but maybe increase production at the existing ones if it is currently the only way to decrease less environmentally friendly ways of power production.
* Edit - I just read it was for college, so maybe this is not the best way to do your research...
The reason I don't really like it is that I think we should eventually (and when I say "eventually" I mean "ASAP") switch to more sustainable methods like solar, wind and water energy. I'd say nuclear power might be good to use until we have these things, but it seems like supporting nuclear power will only delay the ubiquitous arrival of better, greener power. My verdict: don't build any new nuclear power plants, but maybe increase production at the existing ones if it is currently the only way to decrease less environmentally friendly ways of power production.
* Edit - I just read it was for college, so maybe this is not the best way to do your research...