Facts on dangers of nuclear powered life
Kadyo
11 March 2010
“”Depleted Uranium” is nothing more than normal uranium from the ground that has been processed to remove most of the fissionable isotope U235.”
I have no idea where your facts and figures came from. My type of employment deals with ions and atomic mass units. Without proper garments and protections, I am vulnerable to radioactive effects and unable to follow safety protocols might even lead to gruesome death.
Uranium-235 (U-235) is one of the elements most commonly used to produce nuclear energy. It is generally used in a mixture with Uranium-238, and produces Plutonium-239 (Pu-239) as waste in the process.
Plutonium is a man-made waste product of nuclear fission, which can be used either for fuel in nuclear power plants or for bombs. Do I also have to remind you that the product is highly radioactive?
I am going to juggle your memory again on the effects and potency when negligence is applied. These are few of the facts that you have to consider: On April 26, 1986 the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Russia, present-day Ukraine exploded, causing the worst nuclear accident ever. 30 people were killed instantly, including 28 from radiation exposure, and 209 on site were treated for acute radiation poisoning.
The World Health Organization found that the fallout from the explosion was incredibly far-reaching. For a time, radiation levels in Scotland, over 1400 miles (about 2300 km) away, were 10,000 times the norm. To this day, several cases of cancer attributed to the accident were still being treated, not to mention deaths. The accident cost the former Soviet Union more than three times the economical benefits accrued from the operation of every other Soviet nuclear power plant operated between 1954 and 1990. So much for your ambitious yearning for high tech living.
More on facts: In March of 1979 equipment failures and human error contributed to an accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the worst such accident in American history. Consequences of the incident include radiation contamination of surrounding areas, increased cases of thyroid cancer, and plant mutations. The surrounding areas were proclaimed uninhabitable. According to the US House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Calculation of Reactor Accident Consequences (CRAC2) for US Nuclear Power Plants, an accident at a US nuclear power plant could kill more people than were killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
The mining of uranium, as well as its refining and enrichment, and the production of plutonium produce radioactive isotopes that contaminate the surrounding area, including the groundwater, air, land, plants, and equipment.
As a result, humans and the entire ecosystem are adversely and profoundly affected. The environmental degradation resulting from these radioactive isotopes are so severe that it will remain toxic for hundreds of thousands of years.
If all these facts still unable to help you distinguish the dangers of your resilient demands for a nuclear powered/high tech life, then I pray to God that your blind loyalty for a destructive project may never come to fruition.
Amen!
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