Model UN

So like I said earlier I attended a Model UN conference a week a go. We spent a lot of time studying the current nuclear crisis and brainstorming new ways to combat it. Paraguay (the country I represented) was anti-proliferation and neutral on nuclear energy because Paraguay is the largest producer of Hydroelectric power in the world. There was a lot of discussion of light water reactors. Light water reactors use plutonium to make power and the leftover waste is unusable for weapons. The only downside is that the leftover waste is just simply waste, and somehow, it has to be disposed of. Which then brings up the question of safe and environmentally friendly disposal methods. In my mind , I don't think that as the human race, we are ready for nuclear technology. Because with it brings many dangers and flaws. There is currently no way of safely and environmentally friendly way of disposing of nuclear waste. We know how to bury it (spreads radioactive materials through the ground), dump it in our oceans (kills a lot of marine life and eliminates the possibility of turning saltwater into fresh water because it might be radioactive), and we know how to launch it into space (and the effect of that is fairly obvious... it could come right back down!!). Also nuclear weapons kills civilians. It is already against the rules of war not to kill civilians in wartime. A nuclear weapons only kills civilians. At Nagasaki and Hiroshima 70,000 people died directly as a result of the blast and between 90,000 to 140,000 people were killed from the long term effects of the blast. To me it seems fairly obvious that this sort of destructive and unsafe technology is not for our parents generation, our generation, our children's generation, and every generation of the future.