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Monster Essays - Nuke Waste
Radioactive wastes, must for the protection of mankind be
stored or disposed in such a manner that isolation from the
biosphere is assured until they have decayed to innocuous
levels. If this is not done, the world could face severe
physical problems to living species living on this planet.
Some atoms can disintegrate spontaneously. As they do,
they emit ionizing radiation. Atoms having this property are
called radioactive. By far the greatest number of uses for
radioactivity in Canada relate not to the fission, but to
the decay of radioactive materials - radioisotopes. These
are unstable atoms that emit energy for a period of time
that var....
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