NUCLEAR ENERGY
Turkey needs a huge amount of energy investment to sustain its fast growing economy. Therefore, recently it is mentioned that a nuclear energy project will be built in our country. I think that it must be built. It is important to emphasize that this project is very significant for our country to achieve energy independence.
The prime minister of the government has decided to start building this project because of rising oil prices and dependency on foreign natural gas. For instance, Turkey paid 26 billion US $ for imported energy sources in 2006 and every year this price increases. Consequently, we should build this construction, instead of paying this money, because one can easily deduct that in five years time. This money is more than enough to finance the cost of the nuclear plant construction, so that we have energy independence. However, some groups claim that it shouldn’t be built. They say that the planned nuclear capacity will never cover more than 5 % of the Turkish energy demand in the future, but in reality it is not correct, because Turkey has uranium reserves totalling around 10.000 tones, and it is enough to last 50 years. As a consequence, even though we have a lot of resources, we don’t use them. In fact, this project is required for our country and our independence.
All in all, the plant construction ought to be built. We must pay our money for this project, instead of paying it to buy energy from other countries. To summarize, we should support this project for our country and our independence.
Written by Sena Uyanık, C16
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