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Pre-Reading Task While-Reading Task After-Reading Task ;Pre-reading Task;Nuclear Power;Text-related Information;1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power? 2. From the title of the passage, guess whether the author is for or against theuse of nuclear power. Now read the passage and see if you agree with what the author says.;Text B Detailed Study of the Text; Text B Nuclear Power: Advantages That Outweigh the Risks 1 The views expressed in the debate on the safety of nuclear power have come mainly from the interested parties — the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and British Nuclear Fuels Limited on the one hand, and the various environmental groups on the other. It is not surprising therefore that the public is confused by the many contradictory statements, some of which have been sensational. ; Furthermore, most of the responsible contributions to the debate have been written in such highly technical terms as to be incomprehensible to the lay reader. We believe there is a need for an impartial and dispassionate analysis of the issues involved in language the public can understand. 2 While every effort should be made to develop the more promising natural sources as quickly as possible, we believe it will be virtually impossible for any of them to make a significant contribution to the energy gap before the beginning of the next century.;3 If the world is not to face a substantial fall in living standards with a very real risk of civil upheaval — if not war — there is no alternative but to rely on a major contribution of energy from nuclear sources. However, as it is, there are genuine anxieties which must be answered objectively. These fall under the following broad headings: (I) The long-term effects of the low level radiation to which workers in the plants and the public may be exposed; (II) the possibility of a “