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| title = Nuclear Safety and Hazardous Radioactive Waste | | title = Nuclear Safety and Hazardous Radioactive Waste | ||
| url = [https://web.archive.org/web/20190824142750/http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/07/20/nuclear-safety-and-hazardous-radioactive-waste/ Link to paper (Internet Archive)] | |||
| author = [[Stoyan Sarg]] | | author = [[Stoyan Sarg]] | ||
| keywords = [[nuclear safety]], [[radioactive waste]] | | keywords = [[nuclear safety]], [[radioactive waste]] | ||
| published = 2011 | | published = 2011 | ||
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'''Read the full paper''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20190824142750/http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/07/20/nuclear-safety-and-hazardous-radioactive-waste/ here] ''(archived copy — the original link is no longer available)'' | |||
==Abstract== | ==Abstract== | ||
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| Scientific Paper | |
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| Title | Nuclear Safety and Hazardous Radioactive Waste |
| Read in full | Link to paper (Internet Archive) |
| Author(s) | Stoyan Sarg |
| Keywords | nuclear safety, radioactive waste |
| Published | 2011 |
Read the full paper here (archived copy — the original link is no longer available)
Abstract
For our expectations of an environment-safe planet, the outcome from the UN nuclear safety meeting in Vienna, 2011, is not a satisfactory solution. The proponents of nuclear power guarantee a safe future, but safety has been guaranteed also in the past. Furthermore, one main issue is avoided: the danger from the growing radioactive waste. The Fukushima disaster is the radioactive contamination that came from such waste. There is no recipe for cure for this man-made radioactivity, other than time spanning hundreds to thousands of years. The radioactive waste grows by 12,000 metric tons per year?a volume equivalent to 100 double-decker buses or a two-story building with a footprint the size of a basketball court. By year 2015, it will have reached about 250,000 tons. Plutonium?one of the most hazardous nuclear waste products?is a difficult-to-detect alpha emitter in the contaminated environment. A micrograms dose of Plutonium leads to illness and a life expectancy of less than ten years.