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The deadly legacy of radioactive waste: Wasting our time with nuclear power: Catalysing an energy revolution
| Author | Greenpeace Int. |
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6-01-5-50-85.pdf |
| Date | July 2010 |
| Classification | 6.01.5.50/85 (WASTE - RADIOACTIVE WASTE GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
The deadly legacy
of radioactive waste
Wasting our time with nuclear power
July 2010
Catalysing an energy revolution
greenpeace.org Wasting our time with Nuclear Power 1
Image June 1982: Greenpeace
action protesting at the dumping of
nuclear waste in the Atlantic by the
dumpship Rijnborg. Two barrels are
dropped on top of a Greenpeace
inflatable, causing it to capsize.
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Introduction
Would you drive a car if it had no brakes? The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimates
Probably not. Yet, for the last 50 years, the that the industry annually produces 1 million barrels (200,000
nuclear industry has driven nuclear power m3) of what it considers ‘low and intermediate-level waste’
with no concern for the safety of its deadly and about 50,000 barrels (10,000 m3) of the even more
by-product: nuclear waste. dangerous ‘high-level waste’.2 These numbers do not include
spent nuclear fuel, which is also high-level waste.
This briefing illustrates why - for now, and for the coming
hundreds of thousands of years - the nuclear waste It takes 240,000