Nuclear energy

[madamada_chan]

After hearing of a possible nuclear meltdown in Japan, I remembered this article. Thought I'd share just in case you guys might be interested ^_^http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/docs-talk/2011/01/a-few-good

Comments

[yilei]

Actually, all the doom and gloom about the nuclear reactors is wrong. The media has been sensationalizing it for nothing. There was really very minimal danger since the beginning of the meltdown because all of the reactors were shut off already or "scammed". The reason why there's a "meltdown" is because the element that is used to power the reactor in the core melts when it decays. A meltdown is actually a very broad word. In chemistry, you learn that all elements decay and have something called a "half life" that tells you the speed at which they decay and the way they measure it is how long it takes for there to be only half of the material left