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…Should Yucca Mountain be used to store nuclear waste? With the imminent license renewal of the majority of US nuclear power plants and the insistence of the Bush administration to build additional plants, the need for long-term storage of nuclear waste…

…Just twelve miles from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a nuclear plant by the name of Three Mile Island became unstable. It was March 28, 1979. It was only 4 o'clock in the morning when the small malfunction occurred. What only started as a small error soon…

…"Nuclear Power stations are like stars that shine all day long,' declared one senior Soviet scientist, M. A. Styrikovich. 'We shall sow them all over the land. They are perfectly safe!" This statement was made in the late 1970s - a time when the Soviet…

…countries was by this time in full swing. These state of affairs opened the door for the comparative success of the oil weapon, which before had decidedly failed during the Suez Crisis and the Six-Day War. The changing conditions coincided with the political…

…The biggest environmental issue facing us today is radiation; from reactors, nuclear bombs, bomb sites, nuclear manufactures. Nuclear submarines, Uranium mines, waste shipments and by-products from all of the above and more. The NRC states that small…

…Yucca Mountain-Right or Wrong?                                                                        As the United States' nuclear waste buildup becomes larger, the need for a permanent storage…

…On April 26, 1986 at 1:23 am the core of the fourth reactor at the V.I. Lenin nuclear power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine exploded, ripping off the roof, and spaying radioactive material everywhere. Chernobyl is known as " the worst nuclear disaster…

…Nuclear Radiation <Tab/>The problem of nuclear radiation first starts off with nuclear meltdowns. In a nuclear meltdown, thousands of people could be killed in the explosion, but much more can be killed due to the radiation after…

…Twain's Use of Modern Weapons in A Connecticuit Yankee in King Arthur's Court Without the use of weapons in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, the novel would be unrealistic and without a doubt would not have received the high approvals…

…Gun Control In early December of 1999, William Manies, 52, of Fountain City, TN returned to his former office to get even with the 45-year-old woman who fired him a month before. Manies, a carry concealed weapon permit holder, walked into the office…