Nuclear Warfare

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city. We can see what happened to the second generation: children born with severe informities such as sixteen fingers and three arms; children born with cancer; and children with mental and physical handicaps. The radiation of a bomb doesn�t always cause instant death, but it is a lingering experience. Japanese people, thought to be healthy, got cancer in later life, and had dis-formed children. Consequently, we must not be swayed by advocates urging us to further develop and expand nuclear power. We must, instead, examine the larger picture; the risks associated with this potentially devastating power. The potential for human error causing a nuclear accident can be ascertained by considering the causes and effects of accidents that have already occurred. In 1952, at Chalk River�s Nuclear Reactor, four control pads were unintentionally removed, causing a partial meltdown of the reactor�s core. In 1957, a fire at the Windscale Pile No. 1 plant, just north of Liverpool, England, ...

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keep eating the contaminated food. "The Chernobyl plant did not have the massive containment structure common to most nuclear power plants elsewhere in the world" (The Chernobyl Accident). The costs associated with nuclear power are of paramount concern. When compared to coal, gas, and oil in 1997, only coal was cheaper than nuclear power. It would appear to the general public, that nuclear power is a bargain deal. Few people, however, take into account the fact that bargain-deals often cost the consumer more in their long-term values. The costs resulting from nuclear accidents are seldom taken fully into account. First of all, the scientists, researchers, technicians, and ...

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