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Nuclear Waste Management


Nuclear energy harnesses the energy released during the splitting or
fusing of atomic nuclei. This heat energy is most often used to convert water
to steam, turning turbines, and generating electricity.
However, nuclear energy also has many disadvantages. An event that
demonstrated this was the terrible incident at Chernobyl'. Here on April 26,
1986, one of the reactors of a nuclear power plant went out of control and
caused the world's worst known reactor disaster to date. An experiment that was
not properly supervised was conducted with the water-cooling system turned off.
This led to the uncontrolled reaction, which in turn caused a steam explosion.
The reactor's protective covering was blown off, and approximately 100 million
curies of radionuclides were released into the atmosphere. Some of the
radiation spread across northern Europe and into Great Britain. Soviet
statements indicated that 31 people died because of the accident, but the......

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