Тоа е така бидејќи е добро заштитен, и се складира длабоко во земјата или се потопува во морињата и притоа на површината не постои никаква зголемена радиоактивност.
Но паниката кај некои е голема...
Се надевам дека не си сериозен во врска со нуклеарниот отпад (па и друг, но првенствено нуклеарниот)
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Постои паника основана и неоснована -оваа со радиоактивниот отпад се однесува на првата. Инаку воопшто не е добро заштитен, еве и со слики
Отпад од пред 40 години, гние, се распаѓа, а не е баш закопан, ниту нурнат длабоко во океаните (башка муабет, после извесно време кога ќе се распадне заштитата, каде ќе оди зрачењето и загаденоста)
Gremikha (Photo atomic-energy.ru)
40 year old rusty spent nuclear fuel containers from Russia’s abounded submarine base Gremikha were shipped to Murmansk this week.
When the tanks were filled to capacity with liquid radioactive waste, Serebryanka simply left Murmansk and sailed to the north-eastern part of the Barents Sea where the tanks was emptied in the sea.
испразнети в море, безбедно
Between 1948 and 1956
radioactive waste from the giant Mayak nuclear complex was poured straight into the Techa River, the source of drinking water for many villages. It exposed 124,000 people to medium- and high levels of radiation.
Nuclear waste was also dumped into the lakes of West Siberia. One of these fell dry during a hot summer and a storm blew nuclear dust across a vast area around the lake.
In 1957 one of the cooling systems of the Mayak-plant exploded and more than half the amount of radioactive waste released by the accident in Chernobyl got into the atmosphere. Some villagers were evacuated, but many were not.
At least 272,000 people were affected by Mayak-radiation.
A radioactive waste dump in Buryakovka, Russia
The government was today accused by Greenpeace of having a haphazard approach to dealing with nuclear waste.
The accusation followed a briefing by David Miliband, the environment secretary, who accepted
recommendations by the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) that
nuclear waste should be dumped deep underground.
Nathan Argent, nuclear campaigner for Greenpeace, said: "
There's already enough nuclear waste in this country to fill the Albert Hall five times over. And CoRWM's report clearly states that
burying nuclear waste in a hole in the ground is not a sure-fire solution to deal with this enormous problem. There is no disposal site operating anywhere in the world for high level radioactive waste.
Instead, a new generation of reactors will create tens of thousands of tonnes of the most hazardous radioactive waste, which remains dangerous for up to a million years. It will establish new targets for terrorists, including nuclear waste trains carrying deadly cargoes along our public rail network for decades to come.
Еве и делови од информации за некои болести
Health Effects and the Nuclear Age
In the 1940's, the US government began a regime of human radiological testing that remained secret well into the 1990's. Ordinary citizens were unwittingly injected with plutonium in public hospitals of San Francisco and New York State. Prisoners in Oregon underwent testicular radiation experiments. Workers at Hanford were fed radioactive fish, while at Los Alamos the chosen fare was small spheres of uranium-235 and manganese-54. These and other such procedures were carried out in a deeply clandestine manner, in order to better discover the health effects of radiation on biological systems. Surprisingly, not a lot was learned. The experiments had varying effects and no overall report was produced from decades of secret human tests. However, evidence today clearly suggests that exposure to radiation impacts human health and the well being of all life.
Populations and individuals around the world have been affected by the increase of radioactive materials in the global ecosystem. Cancers, birth defects, genetic damage, lowered immunity to diseases: these are only some of the potential effects of nuclear testing, uranium mining, radioactive waste burial and all the phases of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy production.
The United States government has finally acknowledged the link between nuclear weapons production facilities and elevated levels of at least 22 kinds of cancers in workers. Compensation for those who have been adversely affected is the focus of current negotiations.
Facts and Figures
- Over the past 60 years, the standards set for occupational exposure has dropped from 30 rems per year in 1934 to 5 rems per year in 1987. These changes in the exposure limits were dramatically altered, as the health effects of radiation became further understood.
- Single radiation doses of over about 1 gray can cause radiation sickness. Acute effects include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, sometimes accompanied by malaise, fever, and hemorrhage. The victim may die in a few hours, days or weeks. Other acute effects can include sterility and radiation burns, depending on the absorbed dose and the rate of the exposure.
- For radiation doses less than about 1 sievert, stochastic, or random, effects are of the greatest concern. Cancer and inheritable genetic damage may appear many years or decades after exposure. Estimates of the magnitude of low-dose radiation effects have tended to rise over the years, but remain the subject of controversy. That Chernobyl is giving rise to a new range of deformations and that cancer in the United States is becoming an epidemic, provides new opportunities to assess the health risks of routine exposure from leaks in commercial power plants, nuclear weapons production facilities, uranium mines and test sites.
- The largest source of radioactive waste threatening human health and genomes is the tailings resulting from uranium mining. These mines are often in indigenous communities with lower than adequate public health monitoring and medical facilities.
- Approximately 2,051 nuclear weapons were detonated in the pursuit of 'security' between 1945 - 1995, an average of one every 9 days during a 50 year period. The 423 above ground tests are estimated to have put 11-13 million curies of strontium-90, 17-21 million curies of cesium-137, 10 million curies of carbon-14 and 225,000 curies of plutonium into the environment.
- The US National Cancer Institute released a report in 1997 revealing that iodine-131 from nuclear testing was found in every single county of the United States.
- Temporary sterility in men can occur with a single absorbed dose, of about 0.15 grays, to the testis. In children, the threshold for congenital (existing at or dating from birth) malformation and other developmental abnormalities has been estimated to be 0.25 grays of radiation exposure up to 28 days of gestation.
- The dose at which half the exposed population would die in 60 days without medical treatment is called the LD50 dose (LD for lethal dose, and 50 for 50 percent). It is about 4 seiverts for adults.
Ако си имал некои многу блиски кои ќе си одат од светов или ќе се мачат во невидени маки ради канцер, ради нечиј курташак и профит...ќе бидеш најголем противник на нуклеарки и нивен отпад.
