Article Writing Homework Help

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on how to use nuclear technologies with the least harm. Since the creation of the first nuclear power plant, the disposing of the toxic by-product has been a problem.&nbsp. Nuclear power plants pose a danger to surrounding communities due to the toxic waste and potential exposure of radiation due to an accident.&nbsp. Nuclear power plants produce twenty metric tons of “high-level radioactive waste” (Brain and Lamb, n.d.).&nbsp. This amount is for one nuclear power plant.&nbsp. “When you take into account every nuclear plant on Earth, the combined total climbs to roughly 2,000 metric tons yearly” (Brain and Lamb, n.d.).&nbsp. This is only the high level radioactive waste, not the low level of radioactive waste in terms of parts, suits, and other items that come into contact with the radiation (Brain and Lamb (n.d.)).&nbsp. Radioactive waste cannot be recycled, or even made safe during a human’s lifetime.&nbsp. It takes thousands and thousands of years before radioactive waste is no longer radioactive.&nbsp. This high-level of radioactive waste must be stored safely away from humans during this radioactive period.&nbsp. “Currently, the nuclear industry lets waste cool for years before mixing it with glass and storing it in massive cooled, concrete structures” (Brain and Lamb (n.d.)).&nbsp. &nbsp.Hopefully in the future this nuclear waste can be made safe for human exposure, but no method has proven effective currently.&nbsp. The reality is today, “this waste has to be maintained, monitored and guarded to prevent the materials from falling into the wrong hands” (Brain and Lamb, n.d.).&nbsp. If storing only two thousand metric tons, it might be possible, but nuclear reactors have been around since the sixties.&nbsp. If only considering the past twenty years, the figure jumps to forty thousand metric tons.&nbsp. This does not include future radioactive waste, or the future power plants that will open creating even more radioactive waste.&nbsp. The danger of human exposure to this radioactive waste rises as the cubic tons grow.