OBJECT – NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Nuclear power plants are thermal power stations which generate electrical energy from heat.
Nuclear energy produces radioactive waste
Government regulations allow radioactive water to be released from Indian Point nuclear power plant to the environment containing “permissible” levels of contamination. The essential natural concern identified with atomic power is the making of radioactive waste, for example, uranium process tailings, spent (utilized) reactor fuel, and other radioactive waste. These materials can stay radioactive and harmful to human wellbeing for a great many years.
As an issue of normal task, radiation is discharged from Indian Point as fluid, vaporous, and strong radioactive waste. Strong radioactive waste incorporates clothing (considered low-level waste) and lighted spent fuel (considered high level waste.)
Each activator routinely emits relatively low amount of airborne and liquid radioactivity. This radioactivity represents over 100 different isotopes only produced in reactors and atomic bombs, including Strontium-89, Strontium-90, Cesium-137, and Iodine-131. Humans take them through food chain or by inhalation.
Types of radioactive pollutions:
- CONTINUOUS POLLUTION: Continuous radioactive pollution is the type of pollution constantly coming from uranium mines, nuclear reactors, and test laboratories, where the radioactive contaminants are always present.
- OCCASIONAL POLLUTION: Occasional radioactive pollution is the type of pollution that occurs during nuclear tests or during experimental tests on radioactive substances.
- ACCIDENTAL POLLUTION: Accidental radioactive pollution is the type of pollution that occurs when certain experiments involving dangerous substances fail, and the substances used for experimentation get out of control.
- effects on environment:
- Affects plant’s normal functioning
- Health risks after eating contaminated food
- Affect on aquatic food web
- Contaminated food chain
- EFFECTS ON HUMANS:
- Short term exposure
- Skin irritation
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Loss of hair, etc.
- Long term exposure
- Irreparable damage of DNA
- Skin/ lung/ thyroid Cancer
- Tumor
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=nuclear_environment
https://www.riverkeeper.org/campaigns/stop-polluters/indian-point/radioactive-waste/
https://www.environmentalpollutioncenters.org/radiation/
https://helpsavenature.com/effects-of-radioactive-pollution
Nuclear energy reduces CO2 emissions
Nuclear power generation does emit relatively low amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). The contribution of nuclear power plants to global warming is relatively little.
Currently, fossil fuels are consumed faster than they are produced, so in the next future these resources may be reduced or the price may increase becoming inaccessible for most of the population.
Another advantage is the required amount of fuel: less fuel offers more energy.
The production of electric energy is continuous. A nuclear power plant is generating electricity for almost 90% of annual time. It reduces the price drastically of other fuels such as petrol.
This continuity benefits the electrical planning. Nuclear power does not depend on natural aspects.
It’s an alternative to fossil fuels, so the consumption of fuels such as coal or oil is reduced. This reduction of coal and oil consumption benefits the situation of global warming and global climate change. By reducing the consumption of fossil fuels we also improve the quality of the air affecting the disease and quality of life.
https://timeforchange.org/pros-cons-nuclear-power-global-warming-solution
https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/advantages_nuclearenergy.php
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