Nuclear Energy

Last week in Science English we learned about ecosystems, and most of you presented in front of the class. Today the girls will finish presenting, and we will move to the next topic - nuclear energy. Many people fear nuclear energy because you can't see it, taste it, smell it, or feel it. This is scary indeed. Nuclear energy has fascinated me, yet scared me from my earliest days of childhood. After the Tohoku earthquake in March of 2011 and subsequent days, we all became more aware of nuclear energy. After the Kumamoto earthquakes, too, we all became fearful of what might happen in our own neighborhoods after a devastating earthquake. 

In the class about nuclear energy we will watch a short movie about the dangers of nuclear energy, but not only about the dangers - about the potential of nuclear energy as well. Of course nuclear energy is dangerous, but it also has the capability or producing vast amounts of never ending energy. Isn't that we we need to help humanity evolve? Isn't that better for progress? For advancing to the next level of awareness, of creating the next generation after generation of society?  This is something we all must ask - are the benefits worth the risk? Perhaps only time and advances in nuclear technology will tell.

Think about it!