Final Assignments

Experimental Exercise:

(1)Category- Nuclear Energy

LIBRARY CATALOG:
Author – Mark Fox, Randolph Boehm
Title – A guide to Nuclear energy : basic documents on technological, economic, environmental and legal issues
Edition – not specified; only years 1945-1979
Place of Publication – Washington
Publisher – Microfilm Project of University Publications of America
Date of Publication – 1980
http://libcat.csueastbay.edu/search~S0?/tNuclear+energy/tnuclear+energy/1%2C20%2C21%2CB/frameset&FF=tnuclear+energy&1%2C%2C2/indexsort=-#

A NEWSPAPER/CURRENT EVENT DATABASE: ProQuest Newspaper- Wall Street Journal
Author – Anonymous
Title – A Long but Not Impossible Road to Renewable Energy
Edition – Eastern edition
Place of Publication – New York
Publisher – Unknown
Date of Publication - Mar 16, 2009
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1661353031&SrchMode=1&sid=3&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1237304845&clientId=17850

ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER:
Author – Kaplan, A
Tel, E
Aydın, E
Aydın, A
Yılmaz, M
Title – Spallation neutron emission spectra in medium and heavy target nuclei by a proton beam up to 140MeV energy
Edition – Vol. 67 Issue 4
Place of Publication – academic premier
Publisher – EBSCO
Date of Publication - April 2009
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=18&hid=114&sid=700fe714-2dd3-448c-9166-c28ed1f05be4%40sessionmgr108&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=36564410

DISCIPLINARY-Science Direct
Author –Giuseppe Palmiottia,
Massimo Salvatoresa,
Gerardo Alibertib,
H. Hirutaa,
R. McKnightb,
P. Oblozinskyd
W.S. Yang
Title – A global approach to the physics validation of simulation codes for future nuclear systems
Edition – Volume 36, Issue 3
Place of Publication – New York
Publisher – Elsevier
Date of Publication - 2008
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V1R-4V936RR-2&_user=521381&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F2009&_alid=885410847&_rdoc=19&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_cdi=5681&_st=5&_docanchor=&_ct=4093&_acct=C000059560&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=521381&md5=cff946e0fd5fa8fe520a0a40ac337299#bcor1

WORLD WIDE WEB: Wikipedia
Author –Unknown
Title -Nuclear energy
Edition –not specified
Place of Publication – not specified
Publisher – Wikipedia
Date of Publication - 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_energy

(2) Essay:
Nuclear Energy
My subject is focused on Nuclear Energy. Nuclear energy comes form energies
found in atoms, which is one of the biggest problems America is facing at this moment. Nuclear Energy is fused together by some of these, uranium, plutonium or thorium or the fusion of hydrogen into helium. It is said that Nuclear energy will be around for about 100 plus years because of the 4 to 5 percent of U-235 (uranium) that is used now a days. There are advantages and disadvantages to nuclear energy and its causes.

Some advantages that Nuclear Energy has is the U.S has limited supplies of coal and oil yet, nuclear power plants can still give off energy even if we run out of oil and coal. One ton of uranium makes more energy than is produced by several million tons of coal or several million barrels of oil. This saves us coal and oil because of how much energy is supplied by power plants. Coal and oil pollutes the air, but nuclear power plants that are well operated do not release contaminants into the environment. With these advantages there must be disadvantages that could cause a crisis.

The disadvantages of having nuclear energy anywhere is that maybe a war could break out and the U.S is one of the most powerful nations that hold nuclear weapons along with Russia. If any weapons or anything was to go wrong and explode the radiation within the weapons will be released and it could kill us. Nuclear waste also could release radiation through nuclear reactor disposable problems. In nuclear energy, the advantages and disadvantages help us formulate opinions on what we should do about it whether we should stop power plants or let it be?

In my opinion I believe that Nuclear energy has been around for many years and people are confused on what we should do, but i believe the best thing we should do is to let the power plants do their job as well as letting those who operate it do theirs. either way we will still be losing something. I say this because if we take away the power plants and all the above we cannot survive for that long. We need energy and electricity and all it provides. If we leave it and think about the negative things it can lead us to then it will happen, we all must thing for the better of this country and ourselves. All there is is hope and with hope we can live till tomorrow or however long it takes.