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Essay Archive - Nuclear Waste Management
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 cond....
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