This week I decided to do my weekly report on Nuclear energy. Nuclear energy was originally used in the mid 1900's by the United States to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War. Soon after the UN established the UN Atomic Energy Commission to deal with the questions raised by nuclear energy. The president of the United States, "Dwight D. Eisenhaur also established a landmark address, "Atoms for Peace" in 1953 which led to the establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1957. Today there are 439 nuclear power plants that produce fourteen percent of the world's electricity and in 9 countries they produce forty percent. In 1968 the UN passed a treaty between all countries on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. The IAEA conducts onsite inspections to enforce this treaty and ensure that nuclear materials are only being used for peaceful purposes. Up until the Iraq war in 2003 their inspectors played a key role in discovering Iraq's banned weaponry. In 2005 the agency was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for their efforts and concern towards preventing nuclear war. One unhealthy product of nuclear energy is nuclear waste. Nuclear waste is the product of nuclear fission and nuclear technology. Nuclear energy is hazardous to most life forms but is sometimes used in small doses to create medicine and treat diseases like cancer. Nuclear waste is also regulated naturally decays over time. In conclusion there are tons of good uses for nuclear energy and tons of bad uses for it. If we use it safely it could save thousands of lives and produce valuable energy for countries around the world. If it is used dangerously it could kill thousands of people or destroy ecosystems, and as we saw during the Cold war and in japan during World War II it could end the world as we know it.