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Possible solution: 1. Alternate energy "Alternative Energy - Wind, Solar, Hydro and other alt energy sources for home power." //Alternative Energy - Wind, Solar, Hydro and other alt energy sources for home power//. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Apr. 2012. . Solar
 * Solar energy is one of the sources. If it was used for 25 years it would save110,000 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
 * Solar energy is safe and is bombproof which means it will not break.
 * Windpower is getting cheaper prices have gone down by 15%
 * "As of 1999, global wind energy capacity topped 10,000 megawatts, which is approximately 16 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. That's enough to serve over 5 cities the size of Miami, according to the American Wind Energy Association."
 * "The cost of wind has dropped by 15% with each doubling of installed capacity worldwide, and capacity has doubled three times during the 1990s and 2000's."
 * "One study found that if wind plants were financed on the same terms as gas plants, their cost would drop by nearly 40%"
 * "It provides enough energy in one minute to supply the world's energy needs for one year."

" Introduction." //pvresources - Photovoltaic Technologies and Applications//. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Apr. 2012. . Amsoil, pass Oil Filter - Use the best bypass oil filter - Use. "Alternative Energy Resources." //Alternative Energy Resources//. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Apr. 2012. . 1.Solar 2. Biomass 3.Wind
 * "Photovoltaics is a science, which examines light-electricity conversion, respectively, photon energy-electric current conversion. In other words it stands for light-current conversion"
 * Solar energy could be used for heating, making fuel for cars, and generating oil.
 * governments tax credits when you use solar energy objects
 * Also increases property.
 * This includes using corn, corn stalks, pine cones, and bark.\
 * Basically you just burn up anything that will burn and it should have some Ethanol you could use for cars as fuels
 * To get energy you use wind as force in order to convert it into energy.
 * Winds usually have to be 10 mph to get the windmills/wind turbines to start generating energy.
 * Wind mills can produce up to 50 to 300 kilowatts of energy per machine
 * When they are grouped together it is known as a wind farm.

2. Better ways to dispose of nuclear energy/Use the nuclear energy for good use "Radioactive Waste Management | Nuclear Waste Disposal." //World Nuclear Association | Nuclear Power - a Sustainable Energy Resource//. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Apr. 2012. .
 * "Nuclear power is the only large-scale energy-producing technology which takes full responsibility for all its wastes and fully costs this into the product."
 * There are three types of waste that come from nuclear waste the first is __low level__ waste which is 1% of the radioactivity of all radioactive waste.
 * "Low-level waste (LLW) is generated from hospitals and industry, as well as the nuclear fuel cycle"
 * "Traditional uranium mining generates fine sandy tailings, which contain virtually all the naturally occurring radioactive elements naturally found in uranium ore. These are collected in engineered tailings dams and finally covered with a layer of clay and rock to inhibit the leakage of radon gas and ensure long-term stability. In the short term, the tailings material is often covered with water. After a few months, the tailings material contains about 75% of the radioactivity of the original ore. Strictly speaking these are not classified as radioactive wastes."

"Processing of Used Nuclear Fuel." //World Nuclear Association//. Web. 10 Apr. 2012. .
 * Recycling**


 * Nuclear energy can be reprocessed after use to help provide fresh energy for future nuclear power plants
 * Some countries such as japan, Russia and several European countries have polocies that you to reprocess old nuclear energy before disposal.
 * "**A significant amount of plutonium recovered from used fuel is currently recycled into MOX fuel; a small amount of recovered uranium is recycled.**"
 * When reprocessed it decreases the amount of high level waste by 1/5
 * Reprocessed is used to get uranium and plutonium
 * Most of nuclear fuel around 96% is uranium
 * no civil reprocessing plants are now operating
 * "commercial reprocessing plants use the well-proven hydrometallurgical PUREX (plutonium uranium extraction) process. This involves dissolving the fuel elements in concentrated nitric acid. Chemical separation of uranium and plutonium is then undertaken by solvent extraction steps (neptunium – which may be used for producing Pu-238 for thermo-electric generators for spacecraft – can also be recovered if required).
 * Over the last 50 years of doing this 25% more energy comes from the original uranium.
 * storage**

"NEI: Nuclear Energy Institute." //Nuclear Energy Institute//. Web. 10 Apr. 2012. . POWER, STEPHEN. "Storage of Nuclear Waste Gets New Scrutiny - WSJ.com." //Business News & Financial News - The Wall Street Journal - Wsj.com//. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2012. . "Geological repository ." //NRC glossary//. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2012. .
 * "Over the past four decades, the entire industry has produced about 65,200 metric tons of used nuclear fuel."
 * "Low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) consists of items that have come in contact with radioactive materials, such as gloves, personal protective clothing, tools, water purification filters and resins, plant hardware, and wastes from reactor cooling-water cleanup systems."
 * "Under a 2002 law, Nevada's Yucca Mountain is the designated repository site for the nation's high-level nuclear waste"
 * geologic repository**
 * geologic repository**


 * An excavated, underground facility that is designed, constructed, and operated for safe and secure permanent disposal of [|high-level radioactive waste]. A geological repository uses an engineered barrier system and a portion of the site's natural geology, hydrology, and geochemical systems to isolate the [|radioactivity] of the waste.