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Nuclear waste pollution can cause people and animals to suffer and most likely die from its poisons

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How does nuclear waste cause land pollution?

It would cause pollution because it would harm men or animals using the land, and would contaminate food produced on the land. However this is not allowed to happen, nuclear waste is carefully controlled and confined to waste stores designed for the purpose


Why nuclear waster can cause of water pollution?

because nuclear waste is toxic causing water to become just as toxic in the environment


How much does it cost to dispose of nuclear waste?

Depending on where it is stored it could cause major pollution problems or even deaths.


What Sources of ocean pollution include?

Oil, toxic waste, and medical waste.


What are example of solid waste pollution?

Bottles in the ocean


Do battery-driven cars cause pollution?

Depends on where you get the electricity to recharge the batteries. If the electricity is produced in a hydro-electric plant then there is almost no pollution. If the electricity comes from a nuclear power plant then you have nuclear waste. If the electricity comes from a coal-fired plant that you do have pollution from the burning of coal.


Where is nuclear waste stored in Britain?

they dump it in the ocean


What is a form of pollution associated with nuclear power reactors?

There is smoke pollution from the reactor itself, in addition to the large trouble of disposing of the highly toxic nuclear waste.


What is radoiactive pollution?

the polluted gas or pollted waste emitted from nuclear stations.


What are the enviromental impacts with nuclear energy?

Far less than fossil fuels. The amount of nuclear fuel required to make a certain amount of energy is tiny compared to fossil fuels, and therefore produces far less pollution. Most of the pollution is from mining the nuclear fuel, the only pollution from burning the fuel is "heat pollution", where the cooling towers dump waste heat into a lake or ocean and the temperature changes the ecosystem.


How does waste cause pollution?

human waste is causing pollution by the drains being emptied in to the river causing water contamination.


How do penguins cause pollution?

They do not. They produce natural waste, which is far different then real pollution.