How would you rate your
food-safety IQ? I know someone who never washes their
fruits and
vegetables after bringing them home from the market
because he
believes that they're washed at the store. Um, no.
Read on
to learn about what some call the "5 dirtiest
foods" and for a food safety wake-up call…
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The dirty food list, according to
fascinating piece
the
following:
Eggs:
While most eggs aren't going to make anyone sick,
experts
estimate that more than 2 million germy eggs (as in
Salmonella
infected) get into circulation each year, sickening
660,000 people
each year and killing as many as 300. Um, maybe we should
think
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twice about eating that
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Vitamin G, perhaps you'd rather
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Make sure the carton says they're pasteurized and
never buy
a dozen that contains any obvious cracks or leaks.
Peaches: They're
pretty, but that's just skin-deep. Health experts warn
that
peach skins are doused in pesticides before they make it
to grocery
store to prevent blemishes. On average, a peach can
contain as many
as nine different pesticides, according to the USDA. This
is one
fruit you might want to buy organic (which may have
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won't have pesticides). (
How Peaches Can Help You Build
Muscle.)
Pre-packaged salad mixes:
Surprise! "Triple washed" doesn't mean
germ-free say experts. Pathogens may still be lurking so
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wash your greens before tossing in your salad bowl.
(
make these salad mistakes!
Melons: Get ready to be
grossed out. According to the article, "when the
FDA
sampled domestically grown cantaloupe, it found that 3.5
percent of
the melons carried Salmonella and Shigella, the latter a
bacteria
normally passed person-to-person. Among imported
cantaloupe, 7
percent tested positive for both bugs." Ewww. Your
best
bet: Scrub your melons with a little mild dish soap and
Scallions: Blamed for several
recent outbreaks of Hepatitis A, and other bugs like the
parasite
Cryptosporidium, Shigella and Salmonella, scallions
present a food
safety problem because of the way they grow (in the dirt)
and lack
of proper washing. While you can't control what
happens in
restaurant kitchens, you can give them a super-duper
washing at
home before cooking with.
Other dirty foods in
the article include chicken, ground beef and turkey, raw
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and cold cuts. Click
to read 5 more.
The bottom line:
Don't be afraid to eat these foods, just
be
aware of the precautions you need to take before enjoying
them.
Most food-borne illnesses are the result of hygiene
carelessness
somewhere in the food chain. Protect yourself!
On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate
your food safety awareness and diligence? Do you wash all
your
produce? How about pre-packaged salad mixes? And what
about melons?
Do any of you wash the exterior with soap and water before
slicing.
I do, and I'm patting myself on the back right
now.
Related:
AN Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes and an insult at George W. Bush, without hitting him, as the US President was shaking hands with the Iraqi Prime Minister at his Baghdad office today.
As the two leaders met in Nuri al-Maliki’s private office, a journalist sitting in the third row jumped up, shouting: "It is the farewell kiss, you dog", and threw his shoes one after the other towards Mr Bush.
Mr Maliki made a protective gesture towards the US president, who ducked and was not hit. The journalist, Muntazer al-Zaidi from Al-Baghdadia channel which broadcasts from Cairo, was frogmarched from the room by security staff, a witness said.
It was not immediately clear where Mr al-Zaidi was taken. Some news.com.au readers have pointed out that anyone who had done the same to Iraq’s former leader Saddam Hussein would have been harshly dealt with.
Soles of shoes are considered the ultimate insult in Arab culture. After Saddam Hussein’s statue was toppled in Baghdad in April 2003, many onlookers beat the statue’s face with their soles.
Some Iraqi journalists stood up to apologise. Mr Bush said: "Thanks for apologising on behalf of the Iraqi people. It doesn’t bother me. If you want the facts, it was a size 10 shoe that he threw."
Playing down the incident, the president later said: "I don’t know what the guy’s cause is… I didn’t feel the least bit threatened by it."
The White House said Mr Bush ducked to avoid the first shoe, while the second narrowly missed the president.
American troop withdrawal
Before the shoes were thrown, Mr Bush and Mr Maliki signed a security accord which calls for American troops to withdraw into their bases by June 30, 2010 and to leave Iraq altogether by by the end of 2011.
The agreement had been the cause of fierce debate in the Iraqi parliament and is seen by some as the Iraqi’s pushing the Americans out. The pact will govern the presence of 146,000 US troops stationed in more than 400 bases when their UN mandate expires at the end of the year, giving the Iraqi government veto power over virtually all of their operations.
The two leaders, in a symbolic ceremony, added their names to the accord which was officially signed on November 17 by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and US ambassador Ryan Crocker.
The signing was held at Mr Maliki’s private office in the highly-fortified Green Zone of central Baghdad that houses the Iraqi Government and US and British embassies.
Despite agreeing to withdraw American troops, Mr Bush said there was "still more work to be done" in Iraq. "The war is not over, but with the conclusion of these agreements… it is decisively on its way to being won,” the President said.
Mr Bush’s trip comes five weeks before he hands over the delicate task of overseeing the US withdrawal from Iraq to his successor Barack Obama. "I’m so grateful that I’ve had a chance to come back to Iraq before my presidency ends,” he said.
Before meeting with Mr Maliki, Mr Bush was driven in a motorcade for several minutes around Baghdad streets, the first time in four visits he has gone somewhere in Iraq other than a military base or the Green Zone.
Australian troops to go
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Contingency plans are also being prepared to end Australia’s military presence in Iraq within a fortnight unless a new legal accord can be hammered out by December 31.
A failure to conclude a status of forces agreement with Baghdad in the next few days would dictate the immediate departure of Australian defence personnel embedded with coalition forces inside Iraq, The Australian reports.
It would also force the redeployment of HMAS Parramatta away from the northern Arabian Gulf, where it helps guard Iraq’s offshore oil terminals.
"At this stage, the balance of probability is that it (a new agreement) won’t come off," a senior Australian Government official said last night of the delicate negotiations that were under way in Baghdad.
]]>Do you want to live in a way that protects thefuture of our children? Do you wish to live in the greenest world possible with a conscience, respect and appreciation for the environment?
Many Americans have a strong sense of environmental and social responsibility. We try to make environmentally well advised choices in many aspects of our daily living, yet we ignore one of the major contributors to the endangered state of the planet.
Worldwide in excess of one billion people do not have a pure source of clean drinking water, this is in excess of 1/6 of the world citizens, yet we, as Americans, waste billions of dollars yearly for the convenience of drinking from a plastic bottle instead of a water tap.
1.5 million tons of plastic are used to manufacture bottled water every year. It also takes in excess of 25 times the amount of water to make each plastic bottle than the bottle contains. 300 million gallons of bottled water are imported to the United States yearly.
Often, in America bottled water is simply an indulgence. Despite our rationalizations, it is not a harmless indulgence. Bottled water is an environmental disaster. Thirty years ago bottled water hardly survived as a business in the United States. We Americans now spend more on “designer” bottled water than we spend on iPods or movie tickets - $15 billion in 2007. The expected United States expenditure for bottled water will be $16 billion a year before the end of the decade.
As a country we consume more than 30 billion single-serving bottles of water per year. Bottled water is the fastest growing beverage industry in the world, worth up to $22 billion a year. Less than 15% of plastic bottles are recycled, the rest end up in the refuse systems and cost America’s cities over 70 million per year to handle clean up and landfill expenditures. America yearly produces in excess of 800,000 tons of plastic bottle pollution that substantially magnifies global warming.
in 2007, Americans trashed more than 38 billion plastic water bottles, approximately $1 billion worth of plastic that could have been recycled. That’s an unforgivable waste, especially considering 1.5 million barrels of oil - enough to power 100,000 cars for a year - were consumed to manufacture these bottles. And that’s not even including the oil and gas required for shipping and delivering this huge volume of liquid.
If you are choosing to purchase bottled water, you are basically buying plastic, which is manufactured from petroleum products. When we buy a bottle of water, what we’re often purchasing is the bottle its self. One of the main problems with bottled water production is the reliance on fossil fuels. From manufacturing to transportation, bottled water relies on oil, using 17 million barrels of oil and producing massive amounts of carbon dioxide every year.
In the United States alone, we are hauling 1 billion liters of water around a week in trains, trucks, railcars and ships. That adds up to a weekly giant convoy equivalent to 37,800 18-wheelers. Water weighs over 8 pounds a gallon. Water is so very heavy you cannot fill an 18 wheeler with bottled water, you have to allow empty space.
There is an simple eco friendly solution. Tap water is considerably less expensive. As an investigative reporter for the NY Times points out, almost all municipal water in America is so good that nobody needs to import a single bottle from Italy or France or the Fiji Islands.
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Pure and safe drinking water should be public, accessible and affordable. The more the wealthy opt out of drinking tap water, the less active political support there will be for investing in developing and maintaining America’s public water supply. That would be a grievous loss.
Availability of inexpensive, pure water is basic to a countrys health. In Fiji, a state-of-the-art factory spins out more than a million bottles a day of the hippest bottled water on the American market, yet more than half the people in Fiji do not have a pure or dependable source of drinking water. This means it is easier for an American in Dallas or Boston to quench their thirst with refreshing Fiji water than it is for the majority of people in Fiji.
Meanwhile, if you choose to get your recommended eight to ten glasses a day from bottled water, you could spend up to $1,500 or more every year. The same amount of tap water would cost pennies a day. Recent studies show that many brands of bottled water fail to meet industry guidelines and the cost of even low quality bottled water can grow quite high.
Much of bottled water is only plain tap water. Many bottled water firms repackage tap water into plastic bottles, then sell them back to the consumer at prices higher than gasoline and increasing just as rapidly. Aquafina, as an example, has finally been pressured into amending its labels to advise consumers that Aquafina water comes from tap water. Why not just drink tap water? More than a quarter of bottled water is just processed tap water.
Plastic containers leach dangerous chemicals. Have you considered why your plastic bottle of water has a warning on the label telling you not to reuse it? The longer you use that bottle, the more likely it is to leach hazarous chemicals into your water.
There is a green solution. If you are not confident in your local tap water or wish to quickly filter tap water when on the go, carbon-filtered tap water is safer and costs much less than bottled water. The Environmental Working Group states, “carbon filtration of tap water will dramatically lower levels of toxic by products; it is also 10 to 20 times less expensive than bottled water, and does not produce the waste and pollution associated with the packaging and transport of bottled water.”
Portable water filters are a perfect solution for water filtration on the go. A portable water filter allows anyone to filter their own water, no matter where they travel; across town or around the world. A portable water filter allows you to free yourself from any harsh taste, additives or contaminates while protecting the environment and your pocketbook. Attempt to get the whole family involved. A five member family could save well over $7,500.00 a year.
Stop being unwitting victims of manipulative advertising. When a entire industry is built up by overwhelming us with a product we do not need, when an entire industry is based on packaging and presentation, not the product, it is worth asking how that happened and what the future impact is upon our precious planet.
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]]> The quality of the air that you breathe will affect your health and in doing so have a direct bearing on your lifespan.
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Everyone knows of the damage that cigarette smoking can do to a person’s health and similarly by breathing in the second hand smoke from other smokers.
If you are a smoker then quitting smoking will help to reduce the damage that has already been done from the smoking and will certainly help to extend your life. If you are living or working in an environment where there are other people smoking then you need to decide what you can do to ensure that you are breathing fresh air all the time.
You should do all you can to encourage other members of the household to quit smoking or if not make them smoke outside so they aren’t polluting your living space and effectively reducing your life.
If you are working in an environment where there are pollutants in the air then you should consider looking for a different job that won’t kill you as one that has bad air will do.
Even living in or near to major cities will probably mean that you will be breathing air that is full of pollutants for much of your life and a change to a location where there is no pollution will do wonders for your health as well as helping you to live longer.
If some of these suggestions aren’t possible at the present then you will have to make the most of your current situation until you can make changes and you should at least get out and about in the weekends to places that are more environmentally friendly where you can breathe some fresh air and restore a little health to your body.
Walking, exercising or just sitting amongst trees will help to improve your well-being and the more you can do that the better.
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]]> The hottest issue that has captured the attention of everyone across the globe is the issue of Global Warming. After scrutinizing different researches and observations, it has been concluded that the overall temperature of the Earth is rising. Solid scientific findings have turned it from a mere theory to a harsh reality. And the worst part of this is that the bad effects of rising temperatures on eco-systems have already started to appear.
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In a global movement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere many initiatives are being taken both at private and government level. Many developed nations in the world have already started producing energy from eco-friendly means like solar, wind and thermal power. All these environment friendly sources of energy are also called green energy or green technology. With the use of green technology, efforts are underway to reduce the utilization of fossil fuels to produce energy. Several ‘Green Technologies’ like water purification, recycling, sewerage and solid waste treatment and renewable energy are being successfully employed to achieve goals.
Many worldwide and global organizations are working with dedication in order to conserve our environment reduce the effects of Global Warming. But as an individual, you can also contribute by not contributing towards Global Warming. Several environmental organizations are promoting the use of energy saving and eco-friendly products. By choosing these ‘Green products’ and refusing to use the old products which posed a threat to the atmosphere, each individual can also play a significant role.
Most manufacturing companies have started to produce eco-friendly and Green products for customers in order to become a part of the solution. Eco-Friendly cars also known as ‘hybrid cars’ are being manufactured on a limited scale to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Similarly many Environment friendly electronics and home appliances are available in the markets which are also affordable. These Green electronics have their power sources in solar and thermal power which is perfectly safe for environment.
Green products like solar chargers and energy saver bulbs not only give better results by using less energy but they are also low-cost. Water saving spout is a great alternative to a normal tap, as it hugely reduces the waste of water. Its thermal censors allow the water to flow only when a human hand is under it and helps save up to 70% of normal water usage. Other green electronics include environmental air and water filters, solar battery chargers, energy saving kitchen appliances, vacuum cleaners and other home appliances that use less energy.
Each and every individual, irrespective of race and nationality must unite and contribute to reduce Global Warming. Even if we cannot make a big contribution, by ensuring the use of Green products we can at least cease to be a part of the problem. The threat that Global Warming poses is in fact directed towards each and every human and animal living on Earth as without it humans cannot exist. By adopting Green living we can help save the Earth, which is by far the most beautiful place in the whole Universe.
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]]>Acne is one of the most common skin disorder suffered by teen and elderly people. Homemade acne treatment requires only natural ingredients that can often be found right in your kitchen.
To investigate the homemade acne treatment you must first understand the cause of acne itself. Acne results from oil blockages in the pores of the skin; when an excess of oil blocks pores, the skin begins to trap dirt and bacteria causing acne to develop. Often times, addressing acne means addressing the general cleansing of the skin. The homemade acne treatment can be a viable, cost-effective way to thoroughly cleanse skin and eliminate acne.
Using lemon juice as a homemade acne treatment can be quite effective. Lemon juice acts as an astringent, sloughing away oil and drying out pores. Since lemon also contains Vitamin C, it addresses any vitamin deficiencies that the skin may be experiencing.
The same process can be used with garlic juice, mint juice, and many other natural products. A simple application at bedtime will allow your skin to experience all the benefits of the homemade acne treatment overnight. In addition to cleansing and treating your acne, some homemade acne treatments have been shown to minimize acne scarring.
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As these home remedies are made of natural herbs, fruits, vegetables, spices that are easily available in our kitchen or garden, they are inexpensive, easy to make and above all 100% natural and free from harmful effects. Nutrients present in these home remedies not only cure acne but also give ultimate nourishment to your skin.
Disclaimer: This article is not meant to provide health advice and is for general information only. Always seek the insights of a qualified health professional before embarking on any health program.
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]]>People today consider mobile phones as necessity. This is true because of the many usage of a mobile phone. They are utilized for communications, entertainment, and access to various technologies.
The need to carry your own mobile phone is as natural as having your wallet on your pocket. It a gadget you can�t live without if you are a �techie person�. It is like bringing your secretary anywhere you go. It is no longer just a plain device made for calls. With the speed of the latest innovations in mobile technology, one can already make their mobile phones as their personal computer.
Today, mobile phone trends change so fast. Even before the new one comes out in the market, another latest discovery out do the previous innovation. Blueberry for example is a mobile platform that has the same role as the personal computer. With it, users can store messages and important data, browse the internet, and access the emails. Mobile phones also have the same storage capacity as the first released computer hard disks.
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Communication
Communication is one fundamental job of a mobile phone. It makes people to be available anytime when there is a need for them to reach each other. One can connect with others through text messages, phone calls or even through mobile email. It is now much easier to be in touch with anyone, anywhere in the globe. It also quickens business transactions, information dissemination, updates, and all that. This results to a more effective and efficient decisions and accurate details.
Entertainment
Mobiles are not just for business related applications. They have different features that suit any types of users. Mobile companies tailored numerous types of mobile phones according to the people�s preferences. There are mobile phones for coach potatoes. For people who do not want to miss their favorite television series, handsets that offer feature of a television are available.
For those who can�t live without music in their life, there is a bulk of mobile models to choose from. These models can store long play lists of audio and video that can be played over and over again. While mobile games are as addictive as computer games, you can be present anywhere and still enjoy your favorite games. What�s more, you can always bear a long line up waiting for your turn with your mobile games.
Personal Assistance
Forgetting vital information, occasions, meetings, or other minute details can be stressful. Everyone is guilty of this and having someone to remind you of these things can be valuable. However, no one can always keep track of everything unless you have a personal secretary. Basic tools such as calculator, stop watch, and alarm clock are not very practical to bring along with you. But having your handset on your side is a relief if need to use any of these tools come up. Moreover, keeping a list of contacts is so crucial and having it saved on your mobile�s phonebook can keep you from much trouble. All these, your mobile phone can virtually be and do for you.
Accessibility to technology
Your handy phone can have you access to diverse technologies obtainable. You can transact with your bank by using your phone. This is called mobile banking. Mobile banking is processed by sending a coded message to a designated number. This message is sent to the bank�s system to process. A confirmation will be sent to a subscriber if the transaction is processed successfully or not.
Through mobile banking one can:
1. Inquire bank balances
2. Transfer Money
3. Purchase
4. Pay bills
With all these conveniences brought about by mobile phones, they are no longer a luxury but a necessity in a highly urbanized world.
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]]>Have you started using videos in your website to improve the conversion rates? If not, you must not delay any further. You will be left behind in the competition when your competitors are making use of all the latest tools and strategies available to them. Almost all of us today know about the effectiveness of videos in generating sales.
We may have hired the best copywriter on the web to do the content for our website and we would have generated powerful textual content for our web pages that talk about the features and strong points of our products and services but people may not have all the time to patiently review the extensive text that you have put in your website. They can easily miss out the most important part of the text that you have included which forms your unique selling proposition. Finally, we fail to achieve what we wanted to achieve through our website, which is increased sales. We can achieve what our long web pages with loads of text cannot achieve through short videos in our website.
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Using well-compiled short and crispy videos in our websites we can easily make people respond to call for action and thereby increasing the sales conversions. Until few years ago we did not have this advantage, using videos online was an expensive feat and it required lot of technical expertise. Online video was limited to popular brands and large companies with huge marketing budget. Now that is not the case anymore we can easily upload multiple videos in our websites like we upload our text files and images. When integrating videos to our websites has become such a simple task, we must be making use of this feature to our advantage. If you want to have an advantageous edge over your customer then you must make use of all latest tools and features that will keep you one step ahead of your competition all the time.
Most of us may be wondering how exactly to do this. Everyone seems to tell that it is important to add videos to our websites and it is easy to do it but no one tells how exactly to do this. Unfortunately, most of us are not internet savvies or tech savvies and if you can identify yourself among these groups, then you do not have to worry. Using a good quality video software converter, you can upload your videos to your website in as little as 10 minutes. Using video software conversion tools, you can add video player controls, choose the best skin for your player, adjust the video size and resolution, integrate it into a captivating page for your visitors to view it and much more in 10 minutes or lesser. You can add videos to your website through a easy to use video software conversion tool. With tools like video editing software, it will just be too easy.
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]]>Those were the days of the heavy-duty industrial computers. It was common to employ a series of bulky storage boxes size processors to perform complicated mathematical and astronomical operations. The computer was a reality but only for the scientific community and the science fiction writers. Commoners like us could just gape at the pictures and wonder at the marvel the machines were supposedly performing.
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The thought that this giant of a machine would one day shrink to a small and slim toolbox size never ever touched our minds. The technicians, however, were busy trying to reduce the size of these machines and increase there speed and performance at the same time. The first step in the right direction came in the form of a Desktop Computer. The desktop computer completely changed the scenario.
When looking at any laptop you are probably concerned with two main things: the price and the quality. Acer laptop, in tems of sales, is one of the top five companies in the entire world, which should tell you that they are doing something right. Acer markets themselves as a company that can offer you IT solutions, including the laptop you are looking for, whether you are a company, a large corporations, or an indivdual. It was in 2000 that Acer laptop came to the forefront because that is when Acer decided to push an overall marketing campagne on gaining a global label. The company as a whole has been around since 1975 and so is well established. Today they do several billion in business each year, and a large chunk of that is due to Acer laptop sales and leases.
A laptop is a computing device, much like the traditional computers, that is space-conscious and offers a high degree of flexibility and portability. It allows the users to feel the magical world of multimedia applications with complete ease and sheer perfection. The latest laptops are designed in such a manner that you can easily keep them in your home or office setup. The overall quality displayed by the laptops is amazingly superior to the traditional computers.
If you are looking for a reliable yet cheap laptop then you must perform a comprehensive market survey. You can look at some of the biggest names in the world of laptops such as Acer, Sony and HCL. The Acer Aspire 5052ANWXMi-Turion notebook, Acer Aspire 5052ANWXMi-1GB X2 notebook and Acer Aspire 5053ANWXMi-1GB X2 notebook are some of the most successful and performance-oriented laptops in the present day market. These latest Acer laptops are extremely high on overall quality, performance, reliability and consistency.
The demand for latest laptops in India is on a significant rise with positive factors such as favourable policies, reducing prices, emergence of new market players and changing customer preferences. If you cannot judge a good deal for yourself then leave all your doubts and place your hands on the Acer laptops. This surely will be one decision you will never regret.
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]]>Nuclear waste is currently reported as being kept in 126 temporary facilities scattered across 39 states, in cooling ponds and in storage buildings near nuclear reactors. Some of this waste sits on sites near rivers or on top of water tables, and some 160 to 170 million Americans live within 75 miles of one of these sites.
Nuclear power stations and reprocessing plants release small quantities of radioactive gases (e.g, krypton-85 and xenon-133) and trace amounts of iodine-131 to the atmosphere. However, they have short half-lives, and the radioactivity in the emissions is diminished by delaying their release. Nuclear waste from NORM is not usually highly radioactive, and might be safe to hold, although it may produce dangerous levels of radioactive radon gas.
Radioactive medical waste tends to contain beta particle and gamma ray emitters. It can be divided into two main classes. Radioactive gases are also contained in the spent fuel rods. Newly withdrawn spent fuel assemblies are stored in large pools of water adjacent to the reactors to keep them from overheating and to protect workers from radiation.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, for example, licenses many of the facilities that produce low-level waste, including nuclear power plants. It also regulates low-level waste disposal. Nuclear waste is the radioactive waste left over from nuclear reactors, nuclear research projects, and nuclear bomb production. Nuclear waste is divided into low, medium, and high-level waste by the amount of radioactivity the waste produces.
Electronics like computers and cell phones contain a lot of different toxins. For example, cathode ray tubes (CRTs) in computers contain heavy metals, such as lead, barium and cadmium, which can be very harmful to health if they enter the water system.
Plutonium, a waste product of burning uranium in a nuclear reactor, is especially dangerous if it gets into the body.
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Plutonium is also dangerous in its own right because it can be used to produce a nuclear explosion.
Plutonium is highly radioactive and has a half-life of 25,000 years (Bullen and McCormick). This means that plutonium takes approximately 25,000 years to decay to half of its original potency. That means that after 24,000 years half of the radioactivity contained in the plutonium will have decayed.
There is no doubt about it. Nuclear waste needs to be very carefully disposed of for storage and there is a primary need to keep the material out of harms’ way for an extremely long while.
There is one body which has been doing radioactive material burial research, for the last 30 years, and it is known as the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company. It has being conducting research and development to find a method for safe final disposal of spent nuclear fuel that will provide long-term protection for man and the environment.
They have now reported that their method, which is now ready for licensing, involves depositing the nuclear fuel in copper canisters at a depth of about 400-700 metres underground.
Two Swedish municipalities, Osthammar (Forsmark) and Oskarshamn, are prepared to accept the repository. The view is that the bedrock in these municipalities meets all the requirements for safe final disposal.
Even if development of the final disposal method for Sweden’s spent nuclear fuel, currently amounting to about 5000 tonnes, is in principle complete, it will be at least ten years before a repository can be operational.
Getting nuclear waste disposal right is important, but vastly more waste is generated every day in construction, in fact construction waste production is huge. However, it has been proven that careful planning to reduce construction waste not only results in construction contracts being completed without producing as much waste, the savings are so large that overall the production of a Site Waste Management Plan saves the Contractor money.
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