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Lindsay, Heather. "Nuclear Energy Issues." //CSA//. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2012. . GALE
 * Nuclear energy creats waste that you can not reuse in anyway
 * One type of wast that comes from nuclear energy called spent nuclear fuel rods which is one of the most dangerous if not the dangerous type of waste.
 * it can set off a chain reaction that splits other atoms.

Morrison, Leslie Lai & Kristen. "Issues: Nuclear Energy & Waste: Nuclear Energy Fact Sheet." //Nuclear Age Peace Foundation//. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2012. .


 * An accident with nuclear energy could kill more people than an atmoic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
 * Hazardous nuclear energy wil stay hazardous for 240,000.

"The shape of things to come? - Nuclear power." //The Economist// [US] 9 July 2005: 58US. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 26 Mar. 2012. GALE
 * Accident with nuclear energy at Three Mile Island in 1979
 * Accident with nuclear energy at Chernobyl plant in Ukraine in 1986.
 * Nuclear energy also causes as a political issue. Like how China wants access to U.S.A

Edwards, Julia. "Energy Risks: What's Holding Us Back?" //Nationaljournal.com// 14 Mar. 2011. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 26 Mar. 2012. Gale
 * Earthquakes could make nuclear plants spill.
 * If radiation leaks people near or in the area are more likely to have cancer.

Smith, Gar. "Don't mini-mize the dangers of nuclear power." //Earth Island Journal// Summer 2011: 15. //Student Resources in Context//. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. Document URL @http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA259588717&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * Radiation from japan poisoned crops and feilds
 * Soviet Union 1957 there was an huge radioactive explosion at mayock that caused 200 deaths.
 * Nuclear power is to complicated and when something goes wrong people get hurt

Tanuro, Daniel. "Nuclear means catastrophe." //Synthesis/Regeneration// Fall 2011: 1+. //Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. Document URL @http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA266236600&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * Whenever there isnt enough fuel rods for the plants bad things happend which means you always have to be watching out for
 * "The reaction that occurs in a power plant is a chain reaction: uranium nuclei are bombarded with neutrons, and when it absorbs a neutron, a uranium nucleus splits in two and releases a large amount of energy (nuclear fission) while also releasing more neutrons, and each of these can cause the fission of another uranium nucleus, (com. p. 19)"
 * "We are [supposed] to believe that a dramatically high level of radioactivity in a wide area around the plant does not have serious consequences for health." said by Sortir du nucleaire
 * Radioactivity comes from two things Iodine 131 and Cesium 137
 * The nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki was based off of Plutonium 239.
 * Chernobyl disaster, after that disaster they said that this happened do to poor technology and other stuff. But there has still been other accidents after this one
 * Japan is a country with high technology and an accident with nuclear power happened there to! which shows that you cant really be an 100% safe.

"The Jaitapur nuclear project is courting too many risks." //DNA// [Daily News & Analysis] 20 Dec. 2010. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. Document URL @http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA244925544&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * EPR's are not tested as adequately as it should be.
 * Radioactivity is under estimated
 * There is no sufficient back up for EPR's which called cause dangerous consequences if one were to fail.
 * "there is no redundancy in the instrumentation and control systems of the EPR"
 * EPR toxcity form radioactive waste is four times the amount of an normal reactor

Williams, Chris. "Why nuclear power must go." //Synthesis/Regeneration// Fall 2011: 7+. //Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. Document URL @http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA266236602&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * Anybody who gets control of nuclear power ill logically go and look for nuclear wepons.
 * "North Korea, following George Bush's post-September 11 declaration that it was a member of the "axis of evil," concluded it needed to speed up development and testing of a nuclear weapon, which it realized with an underground nuclear detonation in October 2006. Iran, the second member of the reputed Axis (Saddam Hussein's Iraq having been the third), has been under intense US pressure for nearly a decade to abandon its civil nuclear power program despite having the legal right to pursue such a course." This shows that there is probably people doing this now. Trying to rush and make an nuclear weapon
 * In the United States, 23 of the 104 operational nuclear reactors are built on the same 1960s design by the same company, General Electric, as the reactors at Fukushima. They have been recognized to have serious design faults since the 1970s and have been regularly retrofitted--that is, patched up--to address design vulnerabilities that are routinely discovered, and that could lead to a core breach and the release of radioactive isotopes.
 * Many power plants sit in between faults on earth.
 * such as Indian Point nuclear power plant that sits right in between two faults.
 * There are power plants all around California that are built to with stand earthquakes of 7.0 to 7.5 on the Richter scale. But there is an 99.7% chance that there will be an earthquake in California within the next 30 years.
 * There has been large earthquakes before in california such as the 1906 earthquake that was an 8.6 on the Richter scale.
 * "The "controlled" chain reaction inside the core has to be relentlessly monitored to keep it within tolerable limits, particularly regarding pressure and temperature. Hence the need to keep the core cooled at all times and have control rods ready to drop into place at a moment's notice, and the necessity of multiple backup systems and fail-safe devices, at least two containment vessels, an evacuation plan, measures to prevent radiation leaks, regular testing of workers and the surroundings, and so on."
 * The nuclear power industry knows that they are a big factor towads the economy. bush and obama administration combined for 34.5 billion dollars towards to them.
 * There are safe alternates such as windmills that only take 18 months to make
 * Nuclear plants take 10 years to make
 * nuclear power cost 12 cent compared to 6 cents for renewable sources.

product Material. "NRC: Students' Corner." //NRC: Home Page//. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2012. .
 * "Nuclear energy is a way of creating heat through the fission process of atoms. All power plants convert heat into electricity using steam. At nuclear power plants, the heat to make the steam is created when atoms split apart -- called fission. (Other types of power plants burn coal or oil for heat to make steam.)"
 * It releases energy in the form of heat.

"Nuclear energy | Energy | Climate change | Science & policy | Energy | Issues." //David Suzuki Foundation | Solutions are in our nature//. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2012. .


 * "As of 2000, Canada had 35,000 tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste and nowhere to put it. With a radioactive half-life of 25,000 years, nuclear waste remains dangerous for 250,000 years"
 * "The last 20 reactors built in the U.S. had an average cost of $5,000 per kilowatt of capacity"

Lubin, Gus. "What Is Nuclear Meltdown? - Business Insider." //Featured Articles From The Business Insider//. N.p., 12 Mar. 2011. Web. 19 Apr. 2012. . >  > >
 * //A **nuclear meltdown** is an informal term for a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating.//