Power plants can be powered by fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or nuclear power to produce steam to turn turbines to generate electricity. elaborate on why one might not choose nuclear power over the fossil fuel power plants. a) nuclear power has far less environmental impact than using fossil fuels. b) nuclear power plants create clean, renewable energy that does not pollute. c) radioactive waste requires special treatment and disposal procedures. d) radionucleotides generate much more energy than fossils fuels can produce.

During spring semester at mit, residents of the parallel buildings of the east campus dorms battle one another with large catapults that are made with surgical hose mounted on a window frame. a balloon filled with dyed water is placed in a pouch attached to the hose, which is then stretched through the width of the room. assume that the stretching of the hose obeys hooke's law with a spring constant of 89.0 n/m. if the hose is stretched by 5.80 m and then released, how much work does the force from the hose do on the balloon in the pouch by the time the hose reaches its relaxed length? unitst 3 number-1497 the tolerance is +/-5% open show work click if you would like to show work for this question: