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Why are radioactive and toxic wastes so harmful to living things?
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What animals are affected by nuclear waste?
Nuclear wastes may be the cause of radioactive contamination of soils, waters, atmosphere, living beings.
Why they are harmful for environment?
Things may be harmful to the environment because they pose direct or indirect danger to living things. For example, wastes may lead to water contamination thus killing aquatic animals and posing health problems to humans.
How does nuclear waste affect the environment?
Harmful Effects of Nuclear Wastes:Nuclear wastes usually contain one or more highly radioactive substances. Radioactive nuclear wastes pollute the earth to a dangerous level of toxicity. If the nuclear wastes are exposed to underground water, the radiations get absorbed in water and then enter in living beings through food chains. Nuclear wastes emit harmful radiations. These harmful radiations affect the living beings. These harmful radiations damage our tissues, cells and rd blood corpuscles. The nuclear wastes radiations can cause the diseases like cancer, leukemia, etc. Radioactive waste also spreads through water that is used in nuclear reactors. This has a huge effect on the surrounding aquatic life. Waste products from nuclear power stations etc. are becoming a serious problem. Nuclear power plants do require huge amounts of water to cool their reactors. If this hot water is dump into rivers or oceans, thermal pollution may result. The heat can have a harmful effect on aquatic life. To protect the environment, the water must be cooled before it is released. Unfortunately, there is no way of stopping a radioactive nucleus from emitting radiation.
What causes radioactives pollution?
The release of radioactive substances in the atmosphere leads to radioactive pollution. Only the radioactive wastes cause the radioactive pollution. Nuclear material is pure and they are not the factor for causing radioactive pollution. The waste discarded improperly only causes radioactive pollution.The following causes the radioactive pollution in high rangeNuclear power plantsCoal fired power plantsUranium plantsThe above said power plants release radioactive wastes to the atmosphere. During their release or transportation of radioactive wastes, the radioactive pollution occurs.
What are radioactive debris of uranium called?
Radioactive wastes
How are substances use by living things returned to the non living things environment?
Through decay when living things die, and through their wastes.
What Waste material that are very harmful to human health or poisonous to living organisms are known as?
hazardous wastes
What are waste materials that are very harmful to human health or poisonous to living organisms known as?
hazardous wastes
The removal of wastes produced by living things is called what?
excretion
What do all living things break down?
all living things break down wastes and threads in the earth
What Living things were different from non living?
Do you mean how are living things different from non-living? If yes, living things have cells, give off wastes, and some other stuff.
What are radioactive wastes a byproduct of?
A+ Nuclear energy
