Nuke Nuke Nuke.....

Singapore is considering nuclear power. This was the information i received from my dad when taking to him during a usual dad-son chat...

Wow...Nuclear power... The phrase felt strange. Remembering that the only time i actually heard or seen the phrase was from the computer game "Command n Conquer". In the game, China builds strong nuclear power plants to create energy for its nuclear weapon systems. This caused me to have a mis-conception about Nuclear power and nuclear power plants, thinking that it was only meant for weapons and war purposes.

I almost forgot about the issue until today at Effective Communications class when lecturer asked us to think of topics, to set us going for presentations. We eventually dropped the topic as it was to demanding and difficult to research on. However this sets me going and i decided to blog about this.

Thus, to fulfil my curiosity, i did some research on Wikipedia and also browsed through google. On Wikipedia, it says that nuclear power is energy produced from controlled nuclear reactions also known as nuclear fission. However , as i read on from an article on Straits-times, it reports that nuclear plants needs a 30km of buffer zone. This is also the thing that is limiting Singapore from deploying this project.

PM Lee has also said that hes not ruling out the idea as nuclear plants may be built undergrounds , ruling out the safety problems , or technology will improve and that the safety problem may change allowing Singapore to adopt the idea.

Some may fear that nuclear power plants emits nuclear radiations which is harmful to human bodies. However, there are currently unheard cases about this worry and that many countries are living well with nuclear energy.

The only problems left is, Singapore itself is not able to utilise the full about of energy created from each nuclear fission. This means that Singapore is using too little energy for us to use nuclear fission and that there will be excess energy left.

Well, I'm okay with nuclear power plants. As long as safety isn't compromised, i don't mind having cheaper electricity bills.
Hey guys, what do you think? Are you for or against Singapore using the power of nuclear to produce energy?