What are the environmental effects of generating electricity with conventional nuclear fission, and how do they compare to the environmental effects associated with burning coal?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Conventional nuclear fission is much safer from an environmental standpoint, but when a meltdown does occur the effects can be catastrophic. The discharge from Nuclear fission is much more severe than that of coal, but it is much smaller in scale and easier to control.
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A. the collapse of a supermassive supergiant star. B. the implosion of a white dwarf, which has run out of all its fuel. C. a supermassive supergiant star undergoing a massive nuclear chain reaction. D. any of the above
SLAPP suits are designed to
A. intimidate citizens to keep them from taking businesses to court. B. obtain significant court-ordered punitive damages. C. get to the factual basis of a prior court case to overturn a more recent court decision. D. embarrass polluting corporations.
In thermohaline circulation of global current systems, surface water is ________
A) driven by winds from north to south B) less salty, less dense, and warmer C) cold and dense D) warm and dense E) saltier and colder
________ is a belief that the existence of God cannot be proven empirically
A) Agnosticism B) Atheism C) Unaffiliation D) Assimilation E) Amalgamation