Environmental issues report

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Environmental issues report

• Nuclear issues and environmental health

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INDEX

• Nuclear power.
• Consequences of the radioactivity
• - Nuclear and radiation accidents.
• - Deformations, diseases and pollution
• related to the radioactivity.
• Residues, nuclear cemeteries.
• - Location of some nuclear cemeteries.
• Opinions of the people about the energy and the
  nuclear power stations.
• Our own opinion.

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Nuclear power

• The nuclear power is the energy that is liberated
  spontaneously or artificially in the nuclear
  reactions.
• These reactions are given in the cores of some
  isotopes of certain chemical elements, being the
  most known the fission of the uranium with
  which the nuclear reactors work.

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CONSEQUENCES OF THE RADIOACTIVITY

• Nuclear and radiation accidents
• Accident of Chernóbil
• Chernóbil's catastrophe affected seriously
  Byelorussia, Ukraine and Russia causing
  incalculable losses and terrible hurts to the
  persons, to the flora and the fauna. Besides the
  fact that there remained contaminated more than
  160.000 square kilometres of land.

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• 2. Accident of Japan Fukushima's nuclear
  accident understands a series of incidents, such
  as explosions in the buildings that shelter the
  nuclear reactors, failures in the systems of
  refrigeration or liberation of radiation on the
  outside.

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• Deformations, diseases and pollution related to
  the radioactivity
• The effects of the radioactivity in the alive
  beings are harmful for his physical integrity.
  High quantities received in small and spread
  fractions produce late effects, as the leukemia,
  cancers, cataracts and other degenerative
  processes. Doses low and spread on the time can
  produce late effects or abnormalities and
  deformations in the near generations.

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Residues and nuclear cemeteries

• The radioactive Residues are residues that
  contain chemical radioactive elements that do not
  have a practical intention.
• Nuclear cemetery refers to any place used to
  store radioactive residues produced in nuclear
  reactions.

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• The nuclear residues are buried in cans or
  special containers of lead in order that the
  radioactivity is not liberated.

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• Location of some nuclear cemeteries
• There are nuclear cemeteries in countries as
  United Kingdom, The United States, France,
  Hungary and Holland.

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Opinions of the people about the energy and the
nuclear power stations

• Many people think that the nuclear power is
  necessary for the economy of the country, since
  it is the energy that mas produces because with a
  small quantity of plutonium or uranium a lot of
  energy is generated. But his major disadvantages
  are the nuclear cemeteries and the consequences
  of his escapes and accidents.

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Our own opinion

• Our opinion about the nuclear power is that
  though at first it does not contaminate and is
  relatively easy to obtain, his consequences, in
  case there is an accident or an escape they are
  too dangerous and harmful for the health. And we
  believe that in no case it is necessary to play
  with the life and safety of the persons.

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