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A-Bomb Tests; Three Mile Island and Other Incidents; NPPs Under Normal Operation; Depleted Uranium Bombs

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A few more examples will be given here on the health effects of radiation due to nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants under normal operational conditions, as well as following accidents. Quite a large amount of radioactive material is released even under the so-called normal operating conditions. This is mostly due to the production of gaseous material during the fission process. The gas, mostly radioactive, needs to be vented in order to maintain adequate pressure inside the reactor. For example, in Japan, a nuclear power plant of 1,000 MW is allowed to routinely release 9 × 1014 Bq per year. The health effects of depleted uranium munitions are also serious, and are likely due to radiation from the uranium itself.

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Ochiai, E. (2014). A-Bomb Tests; Three Mile Island and Other Incidents; NPPs Under Normal Operation; Depleted Uranium Bombs. In: Hiroshima to Fukushima. Science Policy Reports. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38727-2_16

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