Nuclear Fact Sheet


	Nuclear Fact Sheet

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There is no known way to safely dispose of this waste, which remains dangerously radioactive until it naturally decays. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issues/nuclear-energy-%26-waste/start/fact-sheet_ne%26w.htm"><LI value="0">The rate of decay of a radioactive isotope is called its half-life, the time in which half the initial amount of atoms present takes to decay. The half-life of Plutonium-239, one particularly lethal component of nuclear waste, is 24,000 years. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issues/nuclear-energy-%26-waste/start/fact-sheet_ne%26w.htm"><LI value="0">According to the US House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations, "Calculation of Reactor Accident Consequences (CRAC2) for US Nuclear Power Plants” (1982, 1997), an accident at a US nuclear power plant could kill more people than were killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issues/nuclear-energy-%26-waste/start/fact-sheet_ne%26w.htm"><P><EM><FONT color="#66cc66" size="3"><STRONG><FONT size="4">2</FONT></STRONG></FONT><FONT color="#66cc66" size="4"><STRONG>.</STRONG></FONT></EM> <SPAN>How It Doesn’t Work – Risks and Dangers of Nuclear Energy</SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issues/nuclear-energy-%26-waste/start/fact-sheet_ne%26w.htm"><P><EM><FONT color="#66cc66" size="4"><STRONG>1.</STRONG></FONT> </EM><SPAN>How It Works – The Scientific Process Behind Nuclear Energy</SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issues/nuclear-energy-%26-waste/start/fact-sheet_ne%26w.htm"><P align="center"><IMG height="60" hspace="0" src="http://www.wagingpeace.org/images/issues/nuclear-energy-&-waste/issues_ne&w_start_fact%7Etitle.gif" width="379" vspace="0" border="0" name="issues_new_factsheet_title" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issues/nuclear-energy-%26-waste/start/fact-sheet_ne%26w.htm"></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6E745186-0022-45DD-8741-C25C15CBABE4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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