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Published: 14.12.1997.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Nuclear Waste Management', 1.
  • Essays 'Nuclear Waste Management', 2.
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Nuclear Waste management
Nuclear energy harnesses the energy released during the splitting or fusing of atomic nuclei. This heat energy is most often used to convert water to steam, turning turbines, and generating electricity.
However, nuclear energy also has many disadvantages. An event that demonstrated this was the terrible incident at Chernobyl'. Here on April 26, 1986, one of the reactors of a nuclear power plant went out of control and caused the world's worst known reactor disaster to date. An experiment that was not properly supervised was conducted with the water-c…

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