· In the United States, 13 million medical procedures involving radioactive isotopes are performed every year.
· One out of every three
As I was surfing the web I found a cool website called Nuclear Is Our Future- and their blog is great. Stewart Peterson, the blog administrator, posts anti-nuclear quotes… and then refutes them! I found the post from March 11 to be particularly interesting.
The anti-nuclear quote said, “As for Cheney’s comments, they reeked of disingenuousness. He declared nuclear power ‘the cleanest method of power generation that we know’ because it produces no greenhouse gasses.–But what about all that nuclear waste that remains deadly for tens of thousands of years?”
Peterson answers, “There is only a small part of nuclear waste that remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, and that can be burned in certain types of reactors, along with the 97% of the original fuel that remains unburned. Why don’t we do it? In the US, it is not only illegal to recycle the unused fuel, but its also illegal to build those reactors! And what about the nuclear waste, to answer their core question? It is all contained–what could be cleaner than that?”
I encourage our readers to check out Peterson’s website/blog. Just look to your left and find the heading Other Blogs to Check Out. Then, click on NIOF’s Blog!
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