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A large nuclear power plant may reject waste heat to a natural body of water; this can result in undesirable increase of the water temperature with adverse effect on aquatic life. Alternatives include cooling towers. [6] The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant – a plant that cools by direct use of ocean water, not requiring a cooling tower
The factory makes fuel rods for atomic power plants, producing material that supplies about 10 percent of the nation’s electrical power. Nuclear material at the site includes low-enriched uranium.
The sources of radioactive pollution can be classified into two groups: natural and man-made. Following an atmospheric nuclear weapon discharge or a nuclear reactor containment breach, the air, soil, people, plants, and animals in the vicinity will become contaminated by nuclear fuel and fission products.
The WHO report released in 2013 predicts that for populations living around the Fukushima nuclear power plant there is a 70% higher relative risk of developing thyroid cancer for females exposed as infants, a 7% higher relative risk of leukemia in males exposed as infants, and a 6% higher relative risk of breast cancer in females exposed as ...
The company building it accepts fish will be killed in its system, but wants to create new habitats.
Scientists from the U.N. nuclear agency watched Friday as Japanese lab workers prepared samples of fish collected at a seafood market near the Fukushima nuclear plant to test the safety of treated ...
A 1000-megawatt nuclear power plant produces about 27 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel (unreprocessed) every year. [44] For comparison, the amount of ash produced by coal power plants in the United States is estimated at 130,000,000 t per year [45] and fly ash is estimated to release 100 times more radiation than an equivalent nuclear power plant. [46]
A team of international scientists collected fish samples from a port town near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday, seeking to assess the impact of the plant's recent release of ...