from the urls-we-dig-up dept Someday, the world will run out of
fossil fuels to burn. But maybe we can avoid running out of
fossil fuels by figuring out another energy source, so we won't
need to burn hydrocarbons to produce electricity. Nuclear
fission is just one possible energy source that could
potentially replace coal, oil and natural gas entirely -- but
there are some obvious drawbacks such as long-term radioactivity
from its waste and the possibility of creating more nuclear
weapons. Nuclear technology keeps moving forward (whether or not
we've figured out how to deal with WMDs), and here are just a
few examples. - Separating uranium-235 from the uranium-238 is a
difficult process, but if there were an easier way to do it,
nuclear proliferation could be a much bigger problem. Cheaper
nuclear energy might solve a bunch of the world's problems, but
it could also create a few new ones, too. [url] - Kenya is
looking to develop its own nuclear energy program at the the
University of Nairobi. It's an ambitio