Nuclear Power Effect on the Environment

Nuclear Power Effect on the Environment
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Introduction  PAGEREF _Toc434713971 \h
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The Overview of World’s Nuclear Power  PAGEREF _Toc434713972 \h
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The Global Trend  PAGEREF _Toc434713973 \h
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Factors Weighing on the Global Growth of Nuclear Power  PAGEREF _Toc434713974 \h
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Regional Breakdown  PAGEREF _Toc434713975 \h
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The International Attitude  PAGEREF _Toc434713976 \h
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Why Nuclear Power  PAGEREF _Toc434713977 \h
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Nuclear Power Effect on the Environment  PAGEREF _Toc434713978 \h
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions  PAGEREF _Toc434713979 \h
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Radioactive Wastes  PAGEREF _Toc434713980 \h
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Nuclear Waste on Land  PAGEREF _Toc434713981 \h
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Nuclear Waste on Water  PAGEREF _Toc434713982 \h
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Nuclear Plant Explosions  PAGEREF _Toc434713983 \h
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General Effect on the Environment  PAGEREF _Toc434713984 \h
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Conclusion  PAGEREF _Toc434713985 \h
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Introduction
Generation of the nuclear power entails the intermediary phase between the front-end and the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle (Sovacool, 2010). Radionuclides are released to regularly to the surrounding during this intermediate phase, and they get to the environment inform of liquid or gas or both. In regards to the environmental effects, public exposure to the radiations is controlled through a system of dose limitation that is mostly adopted in all cases (BBC, 2 August 2014). The system dose limitation in question is based on a tripod that entails optimization of protection of the public exposure, practice justification, and dose limit of public exposure. Generally, the collective effective dose per practice unit concept is applied in the justification of a practice and protection optimization. The site for construction of a nuclear power plant is always chosen carefully in anticipation of the effects of a likely accident. Construction of any nuclear power plant is preceded by data collection on the population density in the area, meteorology, orography and even the existing crops (Sovacool, 2010). The obtained data will then be used in making a site specific analyses regarding the real-time assessment of the consequences of an accident. The likelihood of an accident in a nuclear power plant, according to design reactor engineers, is extremely low because multiple protection levels against containment or reactor failures have been put in place (World Nuclear Association, 2013). Models have however been also selected for the calculation of doses, the health effects, and the economic costs as a result of inadvert...