While nuclear energy is not pollutant free‚ it also does not emit nearly the amount of pollutants as various fossil fuel energies. Nuclear power plants do not release air emissions‚ such as carbon dioxide‚ but the necessary process of mining for uranium does. This is‚ arguably‚ the most essential feature of substituting fossil fuels with nuclear power. The incineration of fossil fuels has greatly contributed to the global warming problems we are having today. In 2010 alone‚ approximately 5‚800 million
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diseases like cancer and mutation. For more information on radioactive exposure hazards‚ read ’effects of nuclear radiation’. Radioactive Waste Disposal Problems The safe disposal of radioactive waste is a major problem. Fission of a material like Uranium leaves by products‚ which are themselves radioactive and highly harmful to the environment. Radioactivity cannot be turned off and therefore there is no way but to bury radioactive waste‚ without leading to extra complications arising out of it.
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is applicable to the following natural resources: Iron ore Coal Anything that is produced by the in-situ consumption ( process involving drilling hole through the ore and implementing explosives to create pathways. This is used to derive mostly uranium or copper) Coal seam gas that is extracted as a mandatory step or incident that occurs while extracting coal from a particular coal mine.[1] MRRT came into force on 1st July 21012‚ and was applied to all new and existing coal and iron
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1) Nuclear power generation does emit relatively low amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). The emissions of green house gases and therefore the contribution of nuclear power plants to global warming is therefore relatively little. Between mining the uranium‚ refining and enriching fuel‚ and finally to building and operating the plant‚ a big 1‚250 250-megawatt nuclear facility produces an estimated 250‚000 tons of carbon dioxide during its lifetime. In contrast‚ coal-fired plants produce close to 2 billion
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THAT AUSTRALIA SHOULD EMBRACE NUCLEAR POWER. I am here to tell you that the worst thing for we could do for Australia is to embrace Nuclear power. First of all‚ if it such a great thing and it’s just the best for the environment‚ why do we have to bury the waste in the middle of nowhere in special super safe containers. Another problem‚ where would we even put these special containers so they don’t harm anything? The problem of radioactive waste is still an unsolved one. The waste from nuclear
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explosion was caused by an operator error‚ and cost a lot of money and hurt a lot of people. Nuclear power is made up of atoms that are constructed like a mini solar system. By the late 1950’s nuclear power was developed. There are two types of uranium in nuclear power‚ the u-238 and u-235. Nuclear power plants use a lot of water to cool the rods. They also boil water into steam. Nuclear power plants get the heat that’s needed to produce steam through a physical process called Fission. Fission is
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for its twin benefits: it’s both clean and can cater to people on a mass scale. India has been making advances in the field of thorium-based fuels‚ working to design and develop a prototype for an atomic reactor using thorium and low-enriched uranium‚ a key part of India’s three stage nuclear power programme.[7] The country has also recently re-initiated its involvement in the LENR research activities‚[8] in addition to supporting work done in the fusion power area through the ITER initiative
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NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY - GOOD OR BAD Nuclear power is a type of nuclear technology involving the controlled use of nuclear fission to release energy for work including propulsion‚ heat‚ and the generation of electricity. Nuclear energy is a clean‚ safe‚ reliable and competitive energy source. A small amount of matter creates a large amount of energy. A lot of energy is generated from a single power plant. Nuclear plants help regions meet air pollution standards and also reduce the cost of air pollution
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radiation interacts with nearby matter. This interaction depends in part on the properties of nuclear radiation‚ such as charge‚ mass‚ and energy. Alpha particles consist of protons and neutrons. Uranium is a radioactive element that naturally occurs as three isotopes. One of its isotopes‚ uranium-238‚ undergoes nuclear decay by emitting positively charged particles. Ernest Rutherford‚ noted for discovering the nucleus‚
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fuel. Nuclear Power infects Water Supplies: Cases of water contamination with radioactive substances has happened around over a several diverse nuclear sites around the country. The practice of mining supplies used in nuclear power plants such as uranium and titanium run a very high risk of water contamination to nearby rivers and streams as well as ground water supplies. There is No Safe Way to Mine‚ Store‚ or Process Nuclear Materials: Even though energy industrialists claim that nuclear energy
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