Power Plants By: Tessa, Noah, and Robert

Nuclear Causes They create

Radioactive waste for their energy

They transport radioactive waste which could potentially leak.

Nuclear power plants over heat and can have melt downs.

Nuclear Consequences Upsets the ecological balance

of the region Radiation can damage

biological cells Therefor initiate cancer

Can cause genetic diseases in progeny

Hiroshima 400 extra cancer deaths

among the 100,000 people in the follow-up group

Accidents Chernobyl

Nuclear Solutions Just say no!

Greepeace Germany

Better Technology Filters

Air Water Waste

Thermal Causes They heat up or

cool down body of water.

Water is used as coolant then returned to natural water at a higher temperature.

Also sometimes release freezing cold water to warm bodies of water.

Thermal Consequences Emissions from industrial stacks

environmental and health problems

deviation in the fair weather atmospheric electric parameters.

Large amount of SO, NO & SPM & RSPM which disperse over 25 Kms

Respiratory and related ailments Blocks photosynthesis process

balance of minerals & micro and major nutrients in the plants soil strata

Structures & buildings get affected due to corrosive reactions.

Thermal Solutions Alternative Heating

Solar No more Fossil Fuels

Unsustainable Alternative

development

Hydro Causes Reservoir releases

huge amount of CO2 and Methane from the dams.

Can release more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels power plants.

This doesn’t allow plants to decompose and rot with oxygen.

Hydro Consequences Flooding The Three Gorges Dam is a

hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town World's largest power station in

terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW)

Flooded archaeological and cultural sites Displaced some 1.3 million

people Significant ecological changes,

including an increased risk of landslides

Damage to animals

Hydro Solutions Planning

Flooding Animals

Fish ladder

Disposing Nuclear waste There is no real

way to dispose nuclear waste.

Burying it deep underground where it wont be disturbed for years

Can be stored in steel lined concrete pool for cooling and storing.

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