History Of Power Modern civilisation depends largely on energy. Without it our lives would be reduced to the level of a caveman?s. We would have nothing to power the equipment we rely on to get on with our daily lives. Life would in a way come to a standstill without energy. Without wood, we would not even be able to light fires for warmth or fire for cooking food. Our days would be spent …
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…are safe if it is contained properly whereas there is no way of containing the poisonous gases released by the burning of fossil fuels. Although the cost to build a nuclear power plant is very high, this is made up by cost of the production of power itself. A nuclear power plant is less expensive to operate than a fossil fuel plant mainly because that a nuclear plant uses a much smaller volume of fuel.