Controversial Things From My Country

     The most controversial topic from Taiwan is nuclear energy. The side of people who  approve nuclear energy are thinking “Nuclear energy is more eco friendly. The greenhouse gas it produced is less than wind, water, solar and fire energy. And also, any type of energy will be wasted during the process of transferring. However, the wind, water, solar and fire energy waste five to ten times power than nuclear energy.”

The other side of people think nuclear is very dangerous. Since the event happen in  Japan, many people start thinking about the safety of nuclear. There are three nuclear power plants in Taiwan now, and the government is planning build another one. The disadvantages of nuclear power include: the storage and management of dangerous high-level radioactive waste. Taiwan government bury the nuclear waste in a island of Taiwan, and they only pay the resident there a little money. It is really unfair to them. Also, nuclear power is very expensive, and given the amount of time it takes to build nuclear facilities, people don’t want to pay that much money to get a danger energy.

To sum up, there are many advantages and disadvantage of nuclear. We have to find a balance between them and find a solution of this situation, hopefully there is one day we can have a cheap and eco-friendly energy.