Radioactive products, useless very carefully controlled, could pollute land, sea, air and inland waters. There once, an accidental discharge of radioactive waste from the nuclear processing plant at Sellafield, polluted the beaches and the sea in the area.
Nuclear or atomic power stations and the others industries use or process radioactive materials. The radiation from these materials can cause cancers such as leukaemia. The radioactivity cannot be destroy by burning or any others means of disposal and many of the compounds remain radioactive for thousand of years. The compounds have to be stored or transported in containers which do not allow the radiation to penetrate.
The wastes can be disposed of at the sea or by burying on land or on the sea bed but at present, there is considerable opposition to both of these methods.
Done by: AuDreY
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