Analytical Writing: The drawbacks to the use of nuclear power mean that it is not a long-term solution to the problem of meeting ever-increasing energy needs.

Nuclear energy is a powerful resource of energy which supplies about 20 percent of the electricity by a process called fission in some countries like United States. This process provides the energy by splitting uranium atoms for making steam which is directed to the turbines in order to generate electricity. Although the energy made by the process of making Nuclear energy is remarkable, the negative effects associated with that on the environment has posed negotiations against the nuclear energy and more attention to the other energy sources like wind and solar.

First of all, the radioactive waste releases associated with the nuclear power generation compact on the air. In the mining of the uranium and uranium enrichment process before making steam, fossil fuel is used which emits the greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, or nitrogen oxides.

Second, the generation process of the nuclear energy has negatively influence on the water in several ways. Waste generated from uranium mining operation and rain water runoff can contaminate the groundwater with the heavy metals traces of radioactive uranium. In addition, nuclear power plants use large quantity of water for steam production and cooling. Most plants remove this amount of water from river and lake which compact negatively on the fish and other aquatic life. The worst is that nuclear power plants are discharging the water containing radioactive and hazardous ones as well as the higher temperature into seas and rivers.

One of the biggest arguments against nuclear energy is excepting it in the list of renewable energies. In fact, uranium deposit on earth is finite, unlike solar and wind. To be counted as renewable, the energy source (fuel) should be sustainable for an indefinite period of time, according to the definition of renewable energy. Uranium is a nonrenewable resource that cannot be replenished on a human time scale.

Therefore, with considering all great drawbacks of using nuclear power, especially being associated radioactive wastes which remain toxic for a long period, it can not to be the sustainable energy that ensures human life in the earth. Similarly, it does not seem wise to spend money and time in such a exorbitant process of the nuclear power generation, while studying on other sources like wind and solar which are sustainable and have no toxic waste.