Some kind of nuclear disaster is inevitable in near future. I just read an article about these things from "Scientific American" magazine. There are 260 000 tons of nuclear waste stockpiled all over the world. Couple interesting facts are noone knows what to do with the waste and it's estimated there will be more than 450 000 tons of waste before 2020. Last stores will be full before year 2017.

However that is just a top of an iceberg; There is also undefined amount of highly active radiating materials like uranium isotopes (plutonium) from nuclear weapons. Those materials may have shorter half-life (100-1000 years) but danger for disaster is hundreds of times greater. Highly active materia...

Some kind of nuclear disaster is inevitable in near future. I just read an article about these things from "Scientific American" magazine. There are 260 000 tons of nuclear waste stockpiled all over the world. Couple interesting facts are noone knows what to do with the waste and it's estimated there will be more than 450 000 tons of waste before 2020. Last stores will be full before year 2017.

However that is just a top of an iceberg; There is also undefined amount of highly active radiating materials like uranium isotopes (plutonium) from nuclear weapons. Those materials may have shorter half-life (100-1000 years) but danger for disaster is hundreds of times greater. Highly active materials may start reacting without any actions. In "y12" security complex for example there are materials enough to cause major nuclear explosion (more than 10kt) or normal "dirty" explosion.

Specialists are highly sure there will be another major nuclear disaster in near future. There has been dozens situations in USA, Japan and Russia where only luck has saved us from the worst.

Happy radiation everyone! ;D