Internet is filled with people in either volley trying to persuade the common-er about merits and demerits of nuclear energy at large. Most of these discussion are mainly very ideological and filled with fervour and passion. I will, in this blog try to give you a balanced view in this regard. Well, if you ask me to answer in one line, for or against. My answer would be for it, but there's more to it. For those who have the patience and time read on... Nuclear energy in its present form is mainly fission based i.e. a single atomic nucleus is smashed by a neutron into two smaller nuclei. The bombardment of this nucleus with neutron makes it unstable which eventually results in its splitting into fragments also called as fission fragment. Since this process makes the atom split into two, nuclear scientist call it fission reaction. There's another kind of nuclear reaction wherein atomic nucleus are fused together and quite appropriately it's called fusion reaction. ...
Universe from my perspective..