Nuclear technology and diseases

The last decade has witnessed the emergence of an array of increasingly vibrant movements to hardness science technology in the quest for a transition towards sustainability. These movements take their point of departure a widely shared views at the challenge of sustainable development is the reconciliations of society's development goals with the planet's environment limits over the long term. In seeking to help meet this sustainability challenge, the multiple movements to harness science and technology for sustainability focus on the dynamic interactions between nature and society, with equal attention to how social change shapes the environment. Meeting fundamental human needs while preserving the life support system of planet earth will require a worldwide acceleration of today's halting progress in a transition towards sustainability. A significant response to this challenge has begun to emerge as a new field of sustainability science. This paper stressed on a physical assessment of the quantities of the radioactivity being generated and mobilized by the entire system of related industrial processes making civilian nuclear power possible. It assesses the actual and potential exposure of the public to the natural and human made nuclear radioactivity, and it discusses empirical evidence of harmful health effects of these exposures. Assessment of nuclear health risks proves to be a complicated and multi layered issue. The generation of nuclear energy irrevocably goes together with the generation of immense amounts of human made radio activity. Radioactivity cannot be destroyed. Furthermore, it can't be made harmless to humans.

Nuclear power involves the mobilization of naturally occurring radioactivity and the generation human made radioactivity, a billion fold of the mobilized natural radioactivity. Each reactor of one GWE power generates each year as radioactivity as one thousand exploded nuclear weapons such as Hiroshima bombs. Nuclear health risks are posed by the spread of radioactive substances into the environment. Non-radioactive substances posing health risks not on large scales. The only way to prevent disasters exposure of the public to human made radioactivity on unprecedented scale is to immobilize the radioactive waste physically and to isolate it from the biosphere in deep geologic repositories, lasting at least a million of years. To deal with the global radioactive waste at the current rate of generation about every year a new large deep geological repository has to be opened, at an estimated cost of at least$10billion each. To dispose of the existing radioactive wastes from the past dozens of deep geologic repositories would be required.