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How does the water become contaminated 50 miles from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan?
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∙ 9y ago
mostly ocean currents carry the contamination
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∙ 9y ago
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What has happend to the nuclear reactors in japan after the recent tsunami?
Some have become seriously damaged, and others just damaged beyond repair. This will require assistance from international experts to solve these complex and dangerous problems. Others have been down this path before and this expertise should not be ignored. This large quantum of energy will have to be replaced in the electric system.
What are the risks of nuclear reactors?
It is like a spreading atoms. When atoms is hit with another, it will spreading into other atoms and become bigger. That is why it is so powerful...
Is nuclear reactors using U-235 renewable energy?
No, all the uranium on earth was produced in supernova explosions that occurred more than 6 billion years ago, there is no more arriving on earth (except small amounts in meteors and they got their uranium from the same supernovas as did earth). Without building reactors that burn plutonium if we use up all the uranium-235 it will become impossible to build a nuclear fission reactor (nuclear fusion reactors might become possible someday, but not yet).
Why would nuclear power plants using fusion be potentially better?
Nuclear fusion combines hydrogen atoms into helium atoms. Hydrogen is available from water and helium is an inert gas. When fusion reactors become technologically feasible, we will greatly reduce consumption of limited fossil fuels and production of greenhouse gases. Fusion reactors will not produce high level nuclear waste.
Is helium produced only in the cores of stars?
No. Helium nuclei are a common product of nuclear fission, as takes place in nuclear explosions and reactors. These nuclei then pick up electrons from other atoms and become whole helium atoms.
How could eggs become contaminated?
They can be contaminated by the chicken if the chicken has pathogens.
Does the geiger muller tube become radioactive?
no. as with anything in a contaminated area its surfacemay become contaminated, but this can and should be washed off.
If you become contaminated with chemical agents decontaminate by processing through?
If you become contaminated with chemical agents decontaminate by processing through the CCA within
What happens to populations when water supplies become contaminated?
Everyone will become sick.
When foods are contaminated and not handled correctly people can become sick Which of the following is most likely to contaminate foods?
I think all of these can become contaminated dy disease
How might food utensils become contaminated?
Food utensils become contaminated when pathogens are transferred to its surface. This will happen when the utensils are not washed thoroughly, or someone with dirty hands touches them.
How does groundwater become contaminated?
Water becomes contaminated by people throwing trash on the ground and it ends up in the ground water.
