Sunday, May 25, 2008

Nuclear Wastes

Nuclear wastes is the most common way of the nuclear pollution because of the amount which have given out off process is huge amounts. The IAEA (2007) reported there are 439 nuclear power reactors in operation in the world, operating in 31 countries. Everyday they waste huge amounts of nuclear wastes. The handling of nuclear waste is hard to control because of the long half time of this meterials.

The following figure illustrate that the amount of nuclear waste according to countries in tonnes/year.

Use of Radioactive Rays

Today radioactivity is used many industrial and health aplication such as knowing the gender of the baby before its born, checking the welding quality of the petrolium pipes. We can give many such examples.
All of this application sometimes radioactivity protection is vistal. However sometimes lack of experience sometimes lack of ethical behaviours provoke the radiation pollution which can give people and ecology around the specific sites.

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