Fission is already an established method of energy production. Countries around the world possess fission reactors capable of powering whole cities. The benefits in energy production, however, are shadowed by disturbing accounts of harm to the environment and dangerous nuclear waste byproducts. Chernobyl, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki are frightening precedents in the field of fission development and are not to be ignored.

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