Energy — Should we only use renewable energy?

First of all, you can see my research paper about nuclear energy in Taiwan here:

While writing this research paper, I was being inquirers as I gathered an enormous amount of information from a variety of sources in order to complete this 3-page paper. (6 if added information are counted) I was also being open-minded as accepting a variety of information from all sites that I searched up, including one in Chinese. This can make my paper more biased and can let other people think about its effect on the environment and our health. I’m especially proud that my paper included photos in order to make my paper not so boring and included biased information. However, even though I included many information inside, I don’t think that I fully described my issue effectively. Next time, I will try to find some books in the library in order to explain my issue further. By the way, in order to collect ideas from the audience, I created a survey and send it. However, only 12 people responded to it. So I will choose a way other than survey if I want to collect other’s concept on nuclear power.

The SOI of this unit is “All forms of energy are related; using any energy resource has both positive and negative consequences.” Yes, all kinds of energy are related, especially those that are renewable green energy. However, all kinds of energy have both positive and negative consequences. For example, nuclear energy doesn’t produce direct CO2 emission, but will produce radioactive waste that will remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years — effecting the environment and our own health when leaked. Effects on our health includes malformation, gene mutation, cancer, … etc. We should be aware of these risk brought by those radioactive wastes being produced. Plus, this is the reason that people in Taiwan are protesting against the opening of a new nuclear power plant in northern Taiwan.

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