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Essay / The Advantages of Nuclear Power - 548
One of the advantages of using nuclear power in Malaysia is that it can produce electricity at low cost compared to other source ( Kok, 2009). Nuclear power prices are likely cheaper than power generated from other sources such as coal and gas. Indeed, the nuclear energy source uranium is available in large quantities (Pan, 2008). When a certain material or source is available in large quantities, the price is cheap. The cost of uranium is cheaper than any other source; the cost has decreased over the last 26 years compared to other energies (Pan, 2008). The use of uranium is much lower than that of fuel, which means that energy produced from tens of tons of fuel is almost the same as energy produced from tons of uranium. The second advantage of using nuclear energy is that the waste from nuclear energy is clean. According to (Abhijit, 2010), the creation of nuclear energy does not contribute to environmental problems. A research by (Abhijit, 2010) found that nuclear power produces less pollution than coal and oil because it can produce electricity with n...