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can we really live without nuclear energy?

  • 26-11-2004 5:51am
    #1
    Ned Xoubi
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    Now a days that nuclear applications have contributed to many aspect of our lives, can we really live without nuclear energy?
    Before you answer take a look at this short list of where nuclear sciences and engineering is being used

    Over 200 million nuclear-medicine tests are performed each year all over the world
    More than 16 million patients are treated with nuclear medicine
    Syringes, surgical gloves, scalpel blades, and other pre-packaged hospital supplies are sterilized using nuclear radiation

    Baby powder, contact lens solution, bandages, mascara and other cosmetics, are sterilized using nuclear radiation

    Food Processing and Preservation is permit in 35 countries, nuclear irradiation kills parasites, insects, and bacteria like salmonella and E. coli

    Nuclear energy is being used in the automobile industry, the aircraft industry, mining and petroleum companies, pipeline companies, construction companies, cable manufacturers, and agriculture

    Ned Xoubi


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Ned Xoubi wrote:
    Now a days that nuclear applications have contributed to many aspect of our lives, can we really live without nuclear energy?
    YES
    None of the examples you list have anything to do with energy production.
    Most of them relate to the complete eradication of life and most of the effects could be replicated with electricaly generated X-rays . Some of the ones below are only economic because of the abundance of highly radioactive material produced by the nuclear industry. X-rays produced electrically can be turned off instantly, you don't have to wait 50,000 years.
    Before you answer take a look at this short list of where nuclear sciences and engineering is being used

    Over 200 million nuclear-medicine tests are performed each year all over the world
    More than 16 million patients are treated with nuclear medicine
    Syringes, surgical gloves, scalpel blades, and other pre-packaged hospital supplies are sterilized using nuclear radiation

    Baby powder, contact lens solution, bandages, mascara and other cosmetics, are sterilized using nuclear radiation

    Food Processing and Preservation is permit in 35 countries, nuclear irradiation kills parasites, insects, and bacteria like salmonella and E. coli
    piccowaved is the consumer friendly word for irradiated food. It kills off live organisms but does not remove any toxins they produced. Food continated with botulism would still be just as lethal while bateriological tests would show it to be safe (actually more dangerous - if the bacteria were live then the counsumer would find out PDQ if they left it a day or two before eating as it would noticably go off). And back in the 80's it was already happening, one load of mushrooms was rejected entry in to the UK at a ferry port, next day a similar load was back again with no live bacteria, thanks to a Dutch facility or so the story goes. So I am totally against irriatation of consumer food stuffs, it's ok for medical supplies in fairness and I glad it's used for them
    Nuclear energy is being used in the automobile industry, the aircraft industry, mining and petroleum companies, pipeline companies, construction companies, cable manufacturers, and agriculture

    Ned Xoubi
    Radioactive isotopes are used, either to kill / poison life forms or as a source of radiation which is harmful.

    Ok radiation is used in lightening rods and smoke detectors and glow in the dark stuff - but the total acitivy of these sources is very low..


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