Investigating Sustainability Foltz 2013 | Page 50

a matter of days, then hundreds followed later. That was all because one one nuclear waste situation caused by a leakage at a power plant. What if there were more deaths due a more wide spread leak...

Improving Nuclear Energy

There are multiple ways to improve the use nuclear energy. One improvement being instead of using uranium as a primary material in nuclear energy, something else could be used that will allow nuclear energy to last longer, such as plutonium. Next, our country alone dumps around 2,000 tons of nuclear waste annually. Currently, our country dumps more nuclear waste annually than all the other countries combined. If we