The fukushima catastrophe that occured in 2001 demonstrated what happens when a nuclear power plant's saftey system fails. Along with this, the U.S. nuclear industry responded by saying that that will not happen here, but it can and it will eventually. Even if a meltdown doesn't occur, the waste the nuclear power plants produce do some damage to our enviroment. Every waste dump in the U.S. leaks radiation that can travel through the air,ground water, and agricultural consumption which can lead to human ingestion. This waste has no dispoal becasue the only way to dispose of the waste is to manage it for thousands of years until it decays. For example, uranium 235 has a half life of 703,800,000 years and these elements will remain harmful to
