13871 Nuclear
IELTS Writing Topic: Nuclear Plan
Essay Created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh
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IELTS Essay Topic:
>The threat of nuclear weapons maintains world peace. Nuclear power provides cheap and clean energy. The benefits of nuclear energy outweigh the disadvantages. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer.
Example Answer by Jeenn Lee Hsieh 谢振礼:
The sense of doom in us today is not a fear of nuclear power but a fear of war because nuclear weapons have enlarged the mechanism of war by threatening to kill more people more secretly and more horribly than those of the past. On the downside, there is no way to outlaw a war, so 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. On the upside, going nuclear serves the purpose of energy supply.
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, and these are successful examples to be followed. And it comes as no surprise that more power plants are being built for peaceful use. In all likelihood, the fear of war is overcome by the need for economic development. Unfortunately, a number of nuclear accidents did happen across the world, giving rise to global alarms in peaceful time.
Despite the horrors of nuclear accidents, there are reasons to believe that the benefits of nuclear power will outweigh the drawbacks in the long run. Besides, there is no turning back. Thus, it is important that the feeling of mutual trust on the international front must prevail in order to ensure lasting peace. Fortunately, it is generally agreed that nuclear weapons should be the last thing to be thought of as a means to win a war. In fact, there would be no winner in any nuclear conflict. If anything goes wrong, the scale of destruction on human lives and civilization is beyond imagination.
On the whole, it is true that there is always a fear for a nuclear war, but it is also true that nuclear know-how is not warlike. Rather, it is often a by-product of a warlike society. The nuclear science and technology have provided the means, for good or bad; and the world must seize it for good--for peaceful use only. (Essay created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh 谢振礼 ielts360toefl@hotmail.com pigai zuowen)
