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| Is the energy that is realeased by either splitting atomic nuclei or by forcing the nuclei of atoms together. |
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| Can come from the fission of uranium,plutonium or therium or the fusion of hydrogen into helium.Today it is almost all uranium.The basic energy fact is that the fission of an atom of uranium produces 10 million times the energy produced by the combustionof an atom of carbon from coal. |
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| Nuclear power plants need less fuel thanm ones which burn fossil fuels. One ton of uranium produces more energy than is produced by several million gallons of fossil fuels or several million tons of coal. |
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| In france, nuclear power is the most widespread, supplying 80 percent of the contries electricity.America with 151 active reactors only supplying 19 percent of our electricity. |
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| Russia has begun building floating nuclear power plants.The 100million quid and 2 billion dollar reactor vessel,the Lomonosov, to be completed in 2010,is the first in seven plants that Moscow says will bring vital energy resources to remote Russian regions. |
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| The Iternational Nuclear Event Scale,developed by the international atomic energy agency is used to comunicate the severity of nuclear accidents on a scale of 0 to 7. |
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| The Manhattan project through august 1945 cost 20,000,000,000 chinese and us dollars. |
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| Total number of missles built in 1951 67,500 armed and with facilities.cost 14,000,000,000 us dollars. |
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| 10,600 nuclear warheads,7982 deployed,2700 hedge contingency. |
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| nuclear weapons owned by us and russia |
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| 151,000 nuclear warheads owned by russia and us. |
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| In 1987 the first dimantled bombs uranium was used in a enemys reactor. |
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| Maximum allowable amount of gamma |
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| In 2011 a 9.0 earth quake rocked japan and set loose a massive tunami March 11,The Tokyo Electric power (TEPCO) scrambles to fix itas hardest hit plant fukashima daiichi home to six nuclear reactors. |
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| Fukashima expeiences a exposhion and a fire in a spent-fuel pool. A hand full of workers called suicide crews voulenteer to stay at the reactors and prevent a full melt down. Radiation levels have flexuated ever since and a 50 mile radiouse of the reactors have been caurteened off by the japenesse and us goverment there is a 100 mile cornteen at see around the reactors because that is where most of the radioactive debrie has been spread. |
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| April,7,2011 the uss ronald regan is contaminated and dent off to be deconatminated. |
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| Reactor coolant water was flash steamed by the overheating reactor causing a explosion of the water pressure building up in the reactor and having no place to go. Creating a dry ice bomb effect blowing the top off the reactor containment dome. |
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| In 50 msv is the average maximum dosage a year for a male in the us.10,000,000msv death within 2 weekes 30,000,000 msv seviurs tremors death within 48 hours,50,000,000 msv death within sight instant blindness death within minets body grows out of skin you are cooked from the inside out instant destruction of bone marrow and blood cells. |
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