1. Nuclear power generation will not emit huge amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere like fossil fuel power generation, so nuclear power generation will not cause air pollution.
2. Nuclear power generation will not produce carbon dioxide which will aggravate the global greenhouse effect.
3. Uranium fuel used for nuclear power generation has no other uses than power generation.
4. The energy density of nuclear fuel is several million times higher than that of fossil fuel, so the fuel used in nuclear power plants is small and convenient for transportation and storage. A 1000 MW nuclear power plant only needs 30 metric tons of uranium fuel a year, and it can be transported by plane in one voyage.
5. In the cost of nuclear power generation, the proportion of fuel cost is low, and the cost of nuclear power generation is not easily affected by the international economic situation, so the cost of power generation is more stable than other power generation methods. The biggest advantage of nuclear power generation is that, as we know, it has enormous energy. It can generate a lot of energy with a small amount of nuclear fuel. The energy of 1 ton of low enriched uranium is equivalent to about 50,000 tons of heavy oil. In addition, the advantages of nuclear power generation are as follows:
1, low pollution. The way of nuclear power generation is to use the heat energy released by nuclear fission of nuclear reactor to generate electricity. Nuclear power generation will not discharge a lot of pollutants into the atmosphere and will not cause air pollution. Especially compared with coal-fired power plants, nuclear power generation will not produce carbon dioxide, the "culprit" of global greenhouse effect. Nuclear power plants have set up layers of barriers, which basically do not emit substances that pollute the environment, and even radioactive pollution is much less than that of coal-fired power plants.
As far as fuel resources are concerned, the earth is expected to supply. There are abundant nuclear resources in the world, including uranium, thorium, deuterium, lithium and boron. The global uranium reserves are about 4 1.7 million tons. The available nuclear fuel resources and energy on the earth are more than100000 times that of fossil fuels.
3. Convenient transportation and low cost. The energy density of nuclear fuel is millions of times higher than that of fossil fuel, so the fuel used in nuclear power plants is small and easy to transport and store. For example, nuclear power plants use 80 tons of nuclear fuel every year, and only two standard containers can hold it. If it is replaced by coal, it needs 510.5 million tons, and it is enough to transport 705 vehicles with 20 tons of trucks every day.