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    •What level of responsibility does Australia have to ensure that uranium is used for morally correct purposes? Australia has a high level of responsibility to ensure that uranium is used for morally correct purposes. For example, Australia has been shutting down some mine temporarily because of the effects of nuclear radiation to the environment and the people of Australia. •Economically, Australia gets benefits by selling Uranium. Do we have the right to tell other countries what they can and…

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    Uranium Paetyn Blockhus Why do you think people thought when they first discovered uranium? The warfare has changed when uranium was introduced. The discovery of radioactivity and other things in uranium has been discovered over the years. The size and weight of uranium is one of its many characteristics. The world had changed when they started using and mining uranium. The fun facts of uranium are truly surprising. Uranium is an…

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    Uranium is a chemical element that is naturally radioactive. Its symbol is U. Uranium is a radioactive silvery-white metallic element of the actinide series. Uranium has 235 isotopes. Most nuclear power plants use uranium as fuel because its atoms are easily split part. Uranium generates the heat in nuclear power reactors, and produces the fissile material for nuclear weapons. Deposits of uranium are found in China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Namibia, Greenland, South Africa, United…

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    Rio Tinto is a main worldwide mining gathering that spotlights on discovering, mining and handling the Earth's mineral assets. Our objective is to convey solid and maintainable shareholder comes back from our arrangement of world-class resources and our convincing pipeline of undertakings. We take a long haul, taught approach, creating and running long life, minimal effort, expandable operations that are equipped for conveying quality all through the cycle. Rio Tinto Group is…

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    moving. People who fled from Syria thought about the reasons why they should leave Syria, like so they could give their children a better life and or give themselves a better life style and people who moved to Australia for the mining boom considered the benefits of having a mining job, they think about being FIFO workers or being a permanent resident. These factors apply to any situation and will always have positive and negative impacts on the country they’ll arrive…

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    the world needs to use nuclear technology to help maintain the standard of living. For example, the natural gas explosion in Cleveland, the coal mining in china, and the hydroelectric dam collapse in Japan are all examples of technology accidents. Tucker implies that nuclear power does have some risks but it is still one of the best sources of energy. Uranium fuel rods cam sit in a reactor core for up to five years and power a city close to the size of San Francisco. Nuclear reactors can last…

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    cons seem to overwhelm the pros. Setting up nuclear power plants is very expensive and the majority of nuclear power plants’ fuel relies on a very meager source. The other cons include and are not limited to: mining for the meager source poses a health risk to the people mining and not mining and if not dealt with properly, the radioactive materials used in a nuclear power plant can severely harm the environment as well as the people and animals within it. Opposed to other nonrenewable…

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    Uranium is a radioactive element used for power and nuclear weapons. Many people might not know anything about the element and what it can do to human bodies, cities, and countries. I chose this topic because uranium is an incredibly powerful element that can have major consequences, and I want to explain why we should not use it in today’s world. After World War II, uranium became a huge scientific development on finding out how powerful it is, what it can be used for, and how it can be…

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    Uranium is a very heavy metal, which can be used as an abundant source of concentrated energy. The problem is that why do we think nuclear power is good? And why not use wood or coal or something other that nuclear power. Science has identified this issue when they monitored how much resources we use and we have to understand how we won’t run out of resources. This issue affects us because one day we will run out of resources such as coal gas or oil and it will lead to a difficult like which…

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    Elliot Lake has been a known uranium site from the mid-1950s to the 1960s, which has been the cause of many health disruptions in the communities surrounding these sites, for which harmful effects continue to linger because of the radioactive toxins that had contaminated their lakes. Uranium is a very heavy metal which was often used in the creation of nuclear-powered atomic bombs during the cold war and was then progressively used to generate electricity. Exposure to uranium can result in…

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