... commercial nuclear reactors generate 16 percent of the world's electricity."(Spun, 2002) Yet despite this bright promise, serious problems lay ahead for the new technology. It's original development that of a weapon of mass destruction, and its subsequent use on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ultimately bringing an end to the second world war. Then followed by the nuclear arms race ... under going an increase in the surface temperature, global warming, this is "due in no small degree to the emission of carbon dioxide from electrical power plants that burn coal, oil and natural gas...

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