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%
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