Limited Petroleum Reserves: Is Nuclear Energy an Alternative The twentieth century has been the age of petroleum. Oil in its various refined derivative forms, such as gasoline, kerosene, and diesel fuel, has a unique combination of many desirable and useful characteristics. These include a current availability in abundance, a currently high net energy recovery, a high energy density, ease of transportation and storage, relative safety, and great versatility in end use. Oil is also useful …showed first 75 words of 1157 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1157 total…disastrous reactor explosion was Chernobyl. Chernobyl’s reactor had two major problems. The main problem was that the operators turned of the automatic shutdown to run a test that they new was going to be unstable. The second problem was that Chernobyl was designed as a industrial building not a power plants, there was no upper containment. This is why some people say older reactors should be redesigned and in some cases they should be.