Nuclear Power

There are some substances which can produce heat without being burned. They include Uranium and Plutonium.

This is a uranium mine. The rocks dug out of the ground here contain a tiny amount of uranium.	This must be refined many times until we have enough uranium for the fuel rod of a reactor.

Something happens inside them called nuclear fission. If we can control this nuclear reaction we can use it to produce heat. This heat can then be used to boil water, drive turbines etc, just like in other power stations. Notice the cooling towers on the picture below. Where is the reactor?

Although it produces a lot of electricity and doesn't produce the pollution we get from burning coal, nuclear power has a lot of problems with it.

The biggest problem is how we deal with the nuclear waste that it produced.
This is very dangerous and some of it will be for many thousands of years. It must be put somewhere safe for many generations. Should we be creating waste that our children's' children's' children will have to deal with?