Don't bother fearmongering us with an industry that are not involved with. You don't know about. You don't under stand. And you take as gospel the words of the green peace cranks that are against everything. When I see stats published by the anti's. the numbers and stats are just plain slanted, wrong and out right lies.
A fuel bundle after 250yrs has the same dose as a cat scan.
Accusations of fear mongering are a weak responce to posted references. Attack or counter the information in the referenced sites. I live 30 miles down wind from 2 nuclear plants. I have a right to feel it involves me. The very temporary onsite storage of spent fuel is already well past the original plan and it appears it may continue for decades. There are issues with cost and long range plan for the material.
Nuclear Waste Leak Traced To --- Kitty Litter - Forbes
Leak in massive Hanford nuclear waste tank getting worse | NWCN.com Washington - Oregon - Idaho
Second radiation leak detected at New Mexico nuclear waste site
Radiation leak at nuclear waste dump raises questions | New York Post
BBC News - The radiation leak site that wants more nuclear waste
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents
2000s
January芳ebruary 2000: Samut Prakan radiation accident:
three deaths and ten injuries resulted in Samut Prakarn when a cobalt-60 radiation-therapy unit was dismantled.[16]
May 2000: Meet Halfa, Egypt; two fatalities due to radiography accident.[59]
August 2000 March 2001:
Instituto Oncologico Nacional of Panama, 17 fatalities. Patients receiving treatment for prostate cancer and cancer of the cervix receive lethal doses of radiation.[11][61]
August 9, 2004: Mihama Nuclear Power Plant accident, 4 fatalities. Hot water and steam leaked from a broken pipe (not actually a radiation accident).[62]
9 May 2005: it was announced that Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant in the UK suffered a large leak of a highly radioactive solution, which first started in July 2004.[63]
April 2010: Mayapuri radiological accident, India, one fatality after a cobalt-60 research irradiator was sold to a scrap metal dealer and dismantled.[16]
2010s
March 2011: Fukushima I nuclear accidents, Japan and the radioactive discharge at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Station.[64]
January 17, 2014: At the Rossing Uranium Mine, Nambia, a catastrophic structural failure of a leach tank resulted in a major spill.[65] The France-based laboratory, CRIIAD, reported elevated levels of radioactive materials in the area surrounding the mine.[66][67]
Workers were not informed of the dangers of working with radioactive materials and the health effects thereof.[68][69][70]
February 1, 2014: Designed to last tens thousand years, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site had its first leak of airborne radioactive materials.[71][72]
140 employees working underground at the time were sheltered indoors. 13 of these tested positive for internal radioactive contamination. Internal exposure to radioactive isotopes is more serious than external exposure, as these particles lodge in the body for decades, irradiating the surrounding tissues, thus increasing the risk of future cancers and other health effects. A second leak at the plant occurred shortly after the first, releasing plutonium and other radiotoxins, causing concern for communities living near the repository.[73]
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