Can someone give me three effects that nuclear power has on the environment (negative effects? (10 points)!!!?

Question

please help im stuck here!!!!

Answer 1

polution!

Answer 2

Ok so I am not a scientist but I will give you some great examples of what it can do. first off nuclear waste takes forever to breakdown. There is something called a half life in every element, basically it means that it takes so many years for that substance to be half as deadly or dangerous. So most nuclear waste has a half life of 500 years. So that means it will take 500 years for that substance to be half as dangerous as it was before. In the 1940's the United States government did nuclear testing on a small group of islands in the south pacific called the bikini islands. To this day regular testing is done on the soil. And to this day the soil still contains enough nuclear contamination to be deadly to humans. And because of that all plant life and food that grows is contaminated with nuclear waste.

In Washington state, there was a plutonium factory, which again produced materials to make atom bombs durring the 1940's. Now this is directly related to people, but the percentage of people who worked at the plant and formed cancer like simptoms durring the 30 years the plant was in production was almost 90%. These simptoms included abnormal growths, the rapid developement of cancer cells in the body, and high rate of miscariages, due to deteriated overies in young woman who worked at the plant and in the area.

The one fear that is the most scary is nuclear fallout. Now this would take place if there was a core meltdown, but this did happen in ternoble. The core melted and released massive amounts of nuclear radiation into the atomsphere. When nuclear radiation is exposed to rain clouds, the atoms bond with the wather mollicules and create isotopes. This in turn comes back to the earth, so basically the rain would be nuclear waste falling to the earth. Also this would be an ongoing effect. When it gets hot the water will evaporate into the air and then again repeat the process and rain down more nuclear waste. If you need any more info please e-mail. Hope this helps.

-Ty

Answer 3

The immediate effect is nil. The main problems are: 1. The possibility of an accident which could allow radioactive material to escape endangering anyone downwind; 2. The waste from the nuclear reactor needs to be stored for many thousands of years before it becomes safe. At present it is stored in bunkers, many underground. There is a danger that the storage facilities may deteriorate or be damaged and the extremely radioactive material get into the ground water effecting the food chain for miles around.

Answer 4

Radiation

Radiation

and Radiation.

There is the low level leakage of radiation form nuclear power plants.

There is a danger of accidents resulting in a significant leakage of radiation. Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, although Chernobyl would not have progressed the way it did in a Western power plant.

The biggie to me is the large quantities of low and medium level waste that is produced, with a half life from tens to thousands of years. And, even more significant, the quantities of high level waste that needs to be fully contained for thousands of years before it decays sufficiently to be safe.

Uranium mining is not a very environmentally friendly activity either.

On the plus side, other than the emissions for m the mining and transport it is a zero green house gas emission energy source.

Answer 5

It doesn't give off CO2 or other pollutants so that is good.

It is highly efficient so it doesn't consume natural resources like coal, gas or oil. That is good.

The radioactive waste stays around for 1000's of years so that is bad.

It's possible you could leak radioactive material into the environment in an accident. That is bad.

Can't think of a third negative.

Answer 6

the built or natural enviro?

well the obvious - potential for nuclear war and hence killing of species,

the need for space to develop the power and risk of disease eg. cancers

and the third you'll have to tell me.