Advantages:
1. Nuclear power generation does not emit huge amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere like fossil fuel-based electricity generation, therefore the production of Nuclear energy does not cause air pollution.
2. Nuclear energy production does not produce carbon dioxide which worsens the Earth's greenhouse effect.
3. The uranium fuel used in the production of nuclear energy has no other purpose than the production of electricity.
4. The energy density of nuclear fuel is millions of times greater than that of fossil fuels. Therefore, the fuel used in nuclear power plants is small and easy to transport and store. The factory can consume energy in a year. Only 30 tons of uranium fuel can be transported by plane in a single flight.
5. Fuel costs represent a smaller proportion of cocost of nuclear energy production. The cost of nuclear power generation is less sensitive to the impact of the international economic situation, so the cost of electricity production is higher. stable than other methods of energy production.
Disadvantages:
1. Nuclear power plants will produce high and low level radioactive waste, or spent nuclear fuel. Although they do not occupy a large volume, they must be processed. carefully because it contains radioactive rays and will face considerable political unrest.
2. The thermal efficiency of nuclear power plants is low, so they emit more waste heat into the environment than ordinary fossil fuel power plants. Therefore, thermal pollution from nuclear power plants is more serious.
3. The investment cost of nuclear power plants is too high and the risksThe financial costs of electricity companies are relatively high.
4. Nuclear power plants are less suitable for peak and off-peak operation with load.
5. The construction of nuclear power plants is more likely to cause political differences and disputes.
6. There is a large amount of radioactive materials in the reactor of the nuclear power plant if it is released into the external environment during an accident, it will harm the ecology and the population .