Nuclear Fun Facts

FUN NUCLEAR FACTS:

• Nuclear power produces no carbon dioxide - it's zero carbon.
• Nuclear fuel is 10 million times more powerful than coal.
• A nuclear power station would fit on a football pitch - to grow crops to produce the same amount of energy would take up the whole of the highlands of Scotland - to build wind turbines to produce the same amount of energy would line the coastline from Lands End to Dover.
• An air hostess receives more radiation than a nuclear power worker.
• Every new nuclear power station is strong enough to withhold a 9/11 type terrorist attack.
• Ninety per cent of the world's radiation is in the atmosphere - 9.9% comes from medical activities - 0.003% comes from nuclear power stations.
• If everyone in the world was given a share of the planet's nuclear waste for their lifetime it would be the size of a golf ball.
• Virtually the whole of France's electricity is powered by 60 nuclear power stations.
• There are 20 nuclear power stations on the French coast south of Calais.
• 30 new nuclear power stations in the UK would provide nearly all of our electricity.
• 30 new nuclear power stations in the UK would reduce our CO2 emissions by 40%