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Don't choose nuclear energy

Nuclear reactors consume considerable fossil fuels in mining, processing and transportation of uranium. Nuclear reactors may not emit carbon dioxide into the air directly from daily operation, but worse routinely and accidentally emit tritium-oxide, carbon-14, a radioactive isotope that readily mixes and evenly distributes throughout the air. It reacts with oxygen to form radioactive carbon-dioxide. Spewed, too, are noble gases, high-energy gamma emitters readily absorbed from the lungs to circulate in the blood. These radioactive, cancerous noble gases abound near nuclear reactors.

The vast infrastructure needed to produce nuclear energy uses an enormous quantity of fossil fuels and coal. Besides sucking vast energy from the grid, reactors also consume water. From uranium mining, using 16 billion liters of water yearly, subsequently polluting groundwater and surface water, to the pools used to cool irradiated fuel rods that consume about 9 trillion liters of water yearly. Water flushed from reactors contains tritium and carbon-14 . Rising water temperatures, heat from reactors hastens global warming.

Chose safer renewables, solar, etc.

M.ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ  Russell

Crystal Lake

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