Advantages include an emmission-free power source (not counting the emmissions from mining and refining uranium and constructing the plant) and reliable energy compared to other emmission-free sources (wind,solar).It won't help with energy independence,since we get almost none of our electricity from burning oil.
Disadvantages:non-renewable (depends on uranium,which is finite just like oil),generates waste that is dangerous for 100s of years (and they're gonna build the waste dump in YOUR back yard),a nuke plant is a huge terrorist target (so are radioactive waste dumps and uranium processing facilities),nuke plants take YEARS if not DECADES to permit and build.And oh yeah,it's HUGELY expensive. Advantages include an emmission-free power source (not counting the emmissions from mining and refining uranium and constructing the plant) and reliable energy compared to other emmission-free sources (wind,solar).It won't help with energy independence,since we get almost none of our electricity from burning oil.
Disadvantages:non-renewable (depends on uranium,which is finite just like oil),generates waste that is dangerous for 100s of years (and they're gonna build the waste dump in YOUR back yard),a nuke plant is a huge terrorist target (so are radioactive waste dumps and uranium processing facilities),nuke plants take YEARS if not DECADES to permit and build.And oh yeah,it's HUGELY expensive.