Opinion: Public Fear of Nuclear Waste is Misguided

摘要

Public fears of nuclear waste can be put to rest. In most industries professional guidelines exist. For example, engineers do not put cooking oil in the gearbox of an industrial machine. There are professional routines and guidelines for handling gearbox oil, plus a multitude of other procedures. Professional protocol certainly applies to the concept of nuclear waste. Certain nuclear "stuff is radioactive. It can possibly produce dangerous nuclear radiation. So we must ask; what is nuclear radiation? Atoms, simplistically speaking, have a nucleus made up of a "bunch of little balls" all "glued together" by what is known as nuclear binding energy.