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We’ve written that China, in desperate need of energy, is developing new fusion reactors despite the fact that many US scientists say that fusion doesn’t work. Now UK scientists are saying that, before any new nuclear power plants are built, we should tackle the problem of nuclear waste.

Many solutions have been proposed for this over the years, including burying it in the desert and even on the moon. It can remain lethal for a million years, so besides figuring out where to put it, one of the main problems is how to label the sites so future conscious creatures will avoid them.
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In the midst of concern about Iran developing nuclear weapons, it’s interesting to note that the Nazis may have been on the point of detonating an atomic bomb when World War II ended. A new book published in Italy tells how close the Nazis were to manufacturing a nuclear bomb at the end of World War II. Author Luigi Romersa, who is now 88 years old, actually witnessed the device being tested on an island in the Baltic in 1944.
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According to a proposed “Doctrine for Joint NuclearOperations,” US field commanders will have the right torequest pre-emptive nuclear strikes to prevent nations orother entities from attacking the United States with weaponsof mass destruction of any kind, whether nuclear or not.

Seperately, the CIA has issued an unclassified reportstating that “Al-Qa’ida and associated extremist groups havea wide variety of potential agents and delivery means tochoose from for chemical, biological, radiological, ornuclear (CBRN) attacks.” (To read the CIA statement,clickhere.

This may mean that the US considers a pre-emptive nuclearstrike against Al-Qa’ida a viable contingency.
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A new study shows that the parts of the U.S. that are 40 miles or less from nuclear power plants have higher levels of radioactive strontium-90 than other areas. Strontium-90 collects in bones and tissues and increases the risk of cancer and leukemia.

Gary Stoller writes in USA Today that the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) compared over 2,000 baby teeth from areas near two nuclear plants in Florida and plants in California, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania with baby teeth from other places in the same states and found higher strontium-90 levels in the teeth of people living near nuclear plants.
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