NUCLEAR

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NUCLEAR
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Incidents

• Three Mile Island- (24 years ago)
• Chernobyl (17 years ago)

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Benefits of Nuclear Technology

• Energy
• Food
• Medicine
• Products (used in everyday life)
• Environmental

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Energy

• Nuclear Reactors
• Control Rods, Moderators and Fuel
• IFR (Integral Fast Reactor)
• Light-Water Reactor
• Over 20 of the nations electricity source

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Food

• Irradiation of Food
• Pros and Cons
• Examples of Foods
• Spices, Meats, Poultries
• 500,000,000 tons of food irradiated each year

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Medicine

• Nuclear diagnostic processes help see inside
  the human body without surgery
• Proton Therapy
• PET Scans
• AMS

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Products (used in everyday life)

• Smoke Detectors
• Camping Lantern Mantles
• Fiesta Ware
• Non-Stick Pans
• Photocopiers

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Environmental

• All Human Activities Affect Natural Environment
• AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry)
• Air Quality
• PIXE
• Water Resources
• Dating of aquifers
• Pest Elimination
• Elimination of Tsetse fly(Zanzibar), Fruit
  Fly(Florida)
• U.S. Clean Air Act