Environmental impact of nuclear

power
Grp-19
141-Harshamm Jeetendra
142-Aniket Mane
143-Ankit Patkar
148-Mohd Hasnain Raza

Subject Teacher
Poonam Vengurlekar
What is the Nuclear Power?
Nuclear power is a clean and efficient way of boiling water
to make steam, which turns turbines to produce electricity.
Nuclear power plants use low-enriched uranium fuel to
produce electricity through a process called fission—the
splitting of uranium atoms in a nuclear reactor.
The Impact Nuclear power has at least three waste streams that may impact the environment:

1. Spent nuclear fuel at the reactor site (including fission products and plutonium waste).

2. Tailings and waste rock at uranium mining mills.
3. Releases of ill-defined quantities of radioactive materials during accidents.
Chernobyl Disaster
The Chernobyl fallout had a major impact
on both agricultural and natural ecosystems in
Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, as well as in many
other European countries. Radionuclides were
taken up by plants and later by animals.
Forests and fresh water bodies have been among
the most affected ecosystems.