Preface
Our present life depends largely on burning fossil fuels for energy, but reserves of fossil fuels may be exhausted in the near future if the current trend of fossil fuel consumption continues. Additionally, burning fossil fuels is actually returning the CO2 that had been fixed by ancient organisms eons ago to the atmosphere; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that human consumption of fossil fuels is increasing the atmospheric CO2 concentration so that the resulting greenhouse effect may seriously impact global climate and human life in the near future. Hence, new energy resources are being explored as substitutes for fossil fuels.
Use of atomic energy had been expected to be a safe and reliable energy ...
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