Essay topic: Nuclear power

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Nuclear Power:

Tool of destruction or planet-savior?

26 April 1986

Chernobyl disaster

11 March 2011

Fukushima disaster

www.theguardian.com

Is the fear of nuclear energy justified?

Watch the video and read the articles on the next slides and note the pros and cons of nuclear power.

sitn.hms.harvard.edu

www.greenamerica.org

If you would be pro nuclear energy what would be your two main arguments?
Which two counterarguments would you use and how would you refute them?

If you would be against nuclear energy what would be your two main arguments?
Which two counterarguments would you use and how would you refute them?