Social Justice/Politics
The Nevada mountain proposed for a nuclear storage site
What is Yucca Mountain?
What does the NPT stand for?
What is Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
The types of storage for nuclear waste
What is wet or dry storage?
This is the sickness caused by long-term radiation exposure
What is cancer?
During this era, commercial use of nuclear energy began to expand rapidly
What is the 1960-80s
Waste is locked in containers, sealed in underground facilities
What is nuclear waste disposal?
Environmental factors and tampering of future generations
What are the concerns over the longevity of storage sites?
The status of Yucca Mountain's nuclear storage program
What is stalled?
Mixing new uranium and plutonium to make new fuel rods
What is nuclear waste recycling?
The natural ways people are exposed to radiation
Space and the Earth's crust
Native Americans' 2 reasons for resisting the Yucca Mountain storage site
What is disturbance of ancesteral land and living in the hazard zone?
What is the name of the project that begun in 1942 that developed the first nuclear weapons?
What is the Manhattan Project
The two ways to manage nuclear storage
What is disposal and recycling?
This American nuclear incident still sparks debate over the health effects it caused
What is the Three Mile Island
What is the name of the scientific director of the Manhattan project?
What is Robert Oppenheimer
This is the permanent storage solution for getting rid of nuclear waste
There is none
This percentage is the total amount of nuclear waste produced that is highly radioactive
What is 3%?