has split out in all directions . radiation harms the enviroment because it changes “dna” this can cause cancer ,trees to rot and animals to die . it can get into food and cause and can cause a family to have genetic mutations for many decades. Currently the only way to stop radiation is by encasing the source in lead .however as seen at chernobyl once radiation has been able to escape the effects can take hundreds of years to revearse fully.the radiation can also be caught in couds and form “acid rain” this can melt throught roves and stautes and many more things
However human lives are not the only lives being lost in the struggle against nuclear power. When the atoms of a nuclear are collided or split it creates a masive amout of heat this heat is cooled down by sucking fresh cld water out of streams and pumped around the core this water is then pupmed back out into the strem 27oc hotter this heat is killing fish life , plant life and destroying the streams ecosyatems. This affect can snowball if nothing is done.
Carbon dixoide “greenhouse gas” Nuclear power is a clean green power it does not release carbon dioxide . True but deceving although the actual generating of power does not emmit carbo dioxide , there are alot of things that the nuclear powerplant need tht do. Uranium is used in the reactor core this has to be mined and trucked or shipped. To power the machienes that mine, petrol is used . nuclear power plants have to be built this and all of the entity emit carbon dioxide , so can it really be said that a nuclear power plant does not emmit carbon dioxide.
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