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Nuclear Energy As A Reliable And Safe Source Of Power Generation, Sarup Dhungana May 2022

Nuclear Energy As A Reliable And Safe Source Of Power Generation, Sarup Dhungana

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There is a high demand of energy for generating civil applicable power in the world and in the USA, correspondingly. The world has been consuming various sources to extract the power to meet its demands. Most of the power sources include renewable and non-renewable sources like fossil fuels, natural gas, coal, water, solar, wind, and nuclear power. Although most of these sources have many advantages in terms of their capacity and cost of production, nuclear power can be categorized as the emerging driving force in the United States and in the world for power generation, because of its reliability and …