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Water Pollution and Nuclear Waste
by Jesse Banich
Imagine that you ended up drinking water that had nuclear waste in it. Ow, the pain, the agony!!! Your body would burn in flames and die. Also, did you know that Japan plans to illegally dump 920,000 tons of nuclear waste into the ocean!!!?? Some countries have been doing that kind of stuff for years!!!
Did you know that in 2006, 12,900 cubic meters of nuclear waste were spilled into the ocean? That could fill over 5 olympic swimming pools!! The March 11, 2011 earthquake in Japan knocked thousands of tons of nuclear waste into the ocean!!! Nuclear plant workers use water in the nuclear plant to cool off the rods, but the rods take 10 years to cool off and the water picks up poisonous heavy metals that then come back into the environment when the water is dumped back out. That is bad because if the water comes out too hot then it can kill animals that must live in cold water. It is also bad because even if the hot water goes to animals that can live in hot water, the poisonous metals the water picks up can kill the animals. If the nuclear waste pollutes nature people and animals will get sick.
So that’s why radioactive waste is bad. If you want to be a good person and help the environment you can use more solar panels so less nuclear waste is made which would cause less water pollution to occur.
by Jesse Banich
Imagine that you ended up drinking water that had nuclear waste in it. Ow, the pain, the agony!!! Your body would burn in flames and die. Also, did you know that Japan plans to illegally dump 920,000 tons of nuclear waste into the ocean!!!?? Some countries have been doing that kind of stuff for years!!!
Did you know that in 2006, 12,900 cubic meters of nuclear waste were spilled into the ocean? That could fill over 5 olympic swimming pools!! The March 11, 2011 earthquake in Japan knocked thousands of tons of nuclear waste into the ocean!!! Nuclear plant workers use water in the nuclear plant to cool off the rods, but the rods take 10 years to cool off and the water picks up poisonous heavy metals that then come back into the environment when the water is dumped back out. That is bad because if the water comes out too hot then it can kill animals that must live in cold water. It is also bad because even if the hot water goes to animals that can live in hot water, the poisonous metals the water picks up can kill the animals. If the nuclear waste pollutes nature people and animals will get sick.
So that’s why radioactive waste is bad. If you want to be a good person and help the environment you can use more solar panels so less nuclear waste is made which would cause less water pollution to occur.
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