Besides the problem of a possible
catastrophe in the nuclear power stations, of production of electrical energy or ships and
submarines with nuclear propulsion, the most serious problem which arises for the age of
the atom is the storage of the radioactive residues. What to make this waste? Being given
that the seas cover two thirds with the sphere, the specialists thus "naturally
" thought of them to get rid of these substances mortals. For a long time already,
the nuclear powers are satisfied to reject their radioactive waste in the seas using metal
drums which rust quickly. The corrosive capacity of
water is considerable, none was does not resist to him more few months a few years. Since 1972 in London, several great nations decided to
stop the rejection with the sea of waste with high activity, but on the other hand to
continue the storage of waste with average and weak activity. However, today everyone
knows well that nuclear pollution is most dangerous and most insidious of all. The amounts
of radioactivity to which an organization is subjected add and the cumulated effects are
made feel in all the descent of the algae and at the time of their death they break up on
the funds and form a contaminated sedimentary deposit. The radio operator nuclides are
substituted in living tissue, with elements which are normally present there and
concentrate there. Iodine 131, for example, replaces non radioactive iodine and is in very
significant proportion in the algae. The algae concentrate plutonium also preferentially.
A lot
persons think that the solution with our problems lies in the manufacture of nuclear power
stations increasingly more powerful and in the greatest possible number. However, these
power stations produce waste which will have to
be eliminated well from a way or another. Where that? For which consequences?
