Running head: The Effects of Nuclear Power on Environment.

             The Effects of Nuclear Power on Environment.

            

             ELS Language Center Adelphi University Manhattan.

             May, 2011.

             The Effects of Nuclear Power on Environment.

             Outline.

             I. Introduction.

             II. History of Nuclear Energy.

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             A. Discovery of Fission.

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             1. Enrico Fermi.

             2. Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman .

             B. Theory of Relativity.

             1. Albert Einstein .

             III. History of Nuclear Power Plants.

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             A. Obninsk APS-1 .

             IV. Environmental Effects of Nuclear Power Plants.

             A. Construction of Nuclear Power Plants.

             B. Water Usage and Release.

             C. Effects on Air.

             D. Waste Disposal Issue.

             1. Low-Level waste .

             2. Intermediate-Level Waste .

             3. High-Level Waste.

             E. Radiation Danger.

             1. Radioactive particles and living cells.

             a. Microscopic nuclear explosion .

             b. The skin and radiation .

             2. Effects on humans of radioactive particles.

             a. Serious health problems.

             b. Skin cancer.

             c. Chemical reactions to radiation and tumors .

             d. Leukemia.

             e. The embryo and Fetus .

             f. Effects on body"s long strands of atoms.

             g. Acceleration of aging .

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             h. Thyroid gland .

             V. Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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             A. Hiroshima.

             B. Nagasaki.

             C. Effects of Atomic Bombing on Inhabitants of Bombed Cities .

             1. Effects on Inhabitants.

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             a. Effects of Burns.

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             b. Death and injuries from debris and collapse of buildings.

             c. Effects of directly high blast pressure.

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             d. Effects of radiation deaths and injuries.

             2. Structures .

             VI. Nuclear Disasters from Nuclear Power Plants .