谢振礼写雅思作文【3】Benefits of nuclear energy

IELTS Sample Essay
by Mr. Jeenn Lee Hsieh
for www.360abc.com

Writing topic

The threat of nuclear weapons maintains world peace. Nuclear power provides cheap and clean energy. The benefits of nuclear energy overweigh the disadvantages. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer.

Sample writing

The sense of doom in us today is not a fear of nuclear power. It is a fear of war. Nuclear weapons have enlarged the mechanism of war by threatening to kill more people more secretly and more horribly than those of the past. The nightmare of Hiroshima is vivid memory. Since there is no way to outlaw a war, the only alternative is to go nuclear in the hope that nuclear weapons hidden in stock somewhere serve to maintain world peace by theory of counter-attack. Should anything wrong happen, it could mean mass destruction to human lives.

Let's hope for the best to happen. Nuclear energy is cheap and clean. It is a solution to an energy crisis at a time when other forms of generating electricity are facing limits. Already power plants have been in operation in a number of countries. These are successful examples to be followed. And it comes as no surprise that more power plants are being built for peaceful use. It seems to me that the fear of war is overcome by the need for economc development.

Everything being considered, the benefits of nuclear power will overweigh the disadvantages in the long run. Besides, there is no going back. The feeling of mutual trust on the international front must prevail in order to ensure lasting peace. It is generally agreed that nuclear weapons should be the last thing to be thought of as a means to win a war because there would be no winner in any nuclear conflict. The scale of destruction on human lives and civilization is beyond imagination.

I believe that nuclear know-how is not warlike. Rather, it is a by-product of warlike society. The nuclear science and technology have provided the means, for good or for bad. And the world must seize it for good. For peace. That should be a global dream which must be kept alive.

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