It enters the body through the lung, where it is Known to cause cancer, it mimics iron in the body. Finally, it has a predilection for the testicles, thus inducing genetic mutations in humans and other animals that are passed from generation to generation for the rest of time. Meanwhile, the plutonium itself lives on to enter testicle after testicle, lung after lung. Children are 10 to 20 times more susceptible to the carcinogenic effects of radiation than are adults. It is estimated that nuclear power by the year 2001 will have generated 1.139 tons of plutonium.
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This is because of the amount of fossil fuel used in the manufacture and construction of the reactor and in the mining of the uranium. The milling and enriching of the uranium and the fabrication of the fuel rods. This calculation does not include transport and storage of radioactive waste or decommissioning the reactor. So nuclear power contributes both to global warning and. Massively, to the global burden of manmade radioactivity.