Nuclear Power
On the position of Nuclear Power, I feel that I am for the argument. It is a good source of energy that we must continue using. In this document I will convince you too, that Nuclear Power is good.
Nuclear power plants provide about 20 percent of the world's electricity. Some countries depend more on nuclear power for electricity than others. In France, for instance, about 75 percent of the electricity is generated from nuclear power, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. In the United States, nuclear power supplies about 15 percent of the electricity overall, but some states get more power from nuclear plants than others. There are more than 400 nuclear power plants around the world, with more than 100 in the United States.
Uranium is a fairly common element on Earth, incorporated into the planet during the planet's formation. Uranium is originally formed in stars.
Old stars exploded, and the dust from these shattered stars aggregated together to form our planet. Uranium-238 (U-238) has an extremely long half-life> (4.5 billion years), and therefore is still present in fairly large quantities. U-238 makes up 99 percent of the uranium on the planet. U-235 makes up about 0.7 percent of the remaining uranium found naturally, while U-234 is even more rare and is formed by the decay of U-238. (Uranium-238 goes through many stages or alpha and beta decay to form a stable isotope of lead, and U-234 is one link in that chain.)
Uranium-235 has an interesting property that makes it useful for both nuclear power production and for Nuclear Bomb production. U-235 decays naturally, just as U-238 does, by alpha radiation. U-235 also undergoes spontaneous fission a small percentage of the time. However, U-235 is one of the few materials that can...
Great essay!
This is a great essay. I could tell that you have done a lot of research.
However, your conclusion and introduction doesn't fit with the rest of the essay. In my opinion,the introduction sounds very rigid and forced. I understand that you need to state the thesis, but you could have worded it better than "On the position of Nuclear Power, I feel that I am for the argument." You should have just started with "Nuclear power is a useful source of energy that we should continue using." The "I feel" and "I think" would have been implied. Excessive misuse of "I" really throws readers off.
Also, as Basstard mentioned, it would have been nice to show the readers the other side of the argument by including information about power plants, etc...
But as I said before, great essay. If you smoothed out the intro and conclusion, I bet you would have received a much higher score.
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