Nuclear energy powers twenty percent of world energy needs‚ but is it really worth it? Is the energy worth it for disasters like Chernobyl or Fukushima? I believe that it’s not. Nuclear energy should not be utilized due to issues like radioactive water and radioactive waste. Nuclear power plants operate with highly pressurized‚ heated water‚ so what happens to this water once it’s spent? Contaminated water can be released back to the environment through regulated and supervised channels that ensure
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Radioactive Pollution Radioactivity is a phenomenon of spontaneous emission of proton (a-particles)‚ electrons (ß-particles) and ?-rays (short wave electromagnetic waves) due to disintegration of atomic nuclei of some elements. These cause radioactive pollution. Radiations are of two types ionising and non-ionising. Non-ionising radiations affect only those components which absorb them and have low penetrability. Ionising radiations have high penetration power and cause breakage of macro molecules
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SECTION 1 The Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown and the Possible Health Effects of its Children Problem From the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl in April of 1986‚ the medical world has learned much about the possible effects of radioactive materials being exposed to humans‚ specifically the pediatric population. Through this disaster‚ we learned that children and fetuses exposed to radio-nucleotides were susceptible to central nervous system dysfunction leading to microcephaly and retardation‚ congenital
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being expensive‚ nuclear materials are not safe. When uranium is taken out of the ground‚ radioactive gas is released the air . This is not safe for the workers. Uranium itself is not safe either because of its high radioactivity. Because of this‚ people who work with nuclear fuels are at risk of cancer. As nuclear power stations run‚ they create nuclear waste‚ which also is dangerous. It is very radioactive‚ and it is very very difficult to dispose of or even to store safely. No town wants nuclear
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other hand‚ some pollution‚ cost expense and health problems are becoming seriously. From my point of view‚ the disadvantages of nuclear technology outweigh the benefits. Firstly‚ nuclear technology tends to give rise to a vast amount of waste. Radioactive waste is the most significant pollution. A number of exporters who works in the department of environment mentioned it is very difficult to collect or dispose the kind of waste because the technology have not very efficient .There is no doubt
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Nuclear Power may be atmospheric friendly‚ but it is capable of causing extensive harm on any living organism. One of the worst nuclear power accidents happened in the United States on March 28‚ 1979. The accident occurred at 4:00 a.m. at the Three Mile Island 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania. Three Mile Island has two power plants and together they supplied about 300‚000 homes with electricity. The accident started out as a mechanical malfunction‚ but was intensified by human errors. It was
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“A tiny speck of plutonium-239‚ as little as three millionths of a gram‚ can cause lung cancer. One pound of plutonium-239 contains enough specks to kill nine billion people instantly” (Pringle 26). Plutonium-239 is a human-made element‚ also known as the most dangerous substance on earth. As a by-product of uranium fission‚ plutonium-239 is created by generating electricity from nuclear sources. Contrary to popular belief‚ nuclear energy is hazardous and threatening to health. The use of nuclear
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Earth. I’m against the use of nuclear power for obvious reasons such as accidents in the nuclear power plant then in the history had made destruction and death‚ to give the two most famous examples Chernobyl(1986) and Fukushima(2011). The radioactive dust of both this nuclear power plant‚ from Ukraine and Japan‚ arrived even in Italy. The worst thing is that the damages caused by nuclear accidents are not only in the immediate‚ but go on for decades and perhaps centuries in the environment
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Since the United States exploded its first atomic in 1945 in Japan‚ human have been studying its influence on environment. In a short time‚ the blast wave could destroy the whole ecosystem around the place where nuclear weapons bomb. In long term‚ radioactive fallout may need over years to fall to the ground and climate change could make it is impossible for any life. It appears nuclear weapons mean destruction to the whole world‚ but government can solve these problems by new policies. The easiest
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gradient i.e. falling water. Usually hydroelectric power is obtained by using dams that are built on rivers or waterfalls which convert the kinetic energy of the falling water into electrical energy using large turbines. Nuclear power is the use of radioactive metals and their subsequent nuclear reactions to convert water into steam‚ the pressure of which can be used to run large turbines that can generate a large amount of electrical power. Hydroelectric power is generally considered to be a safe
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