• It is now harder to find and hence more expensive. There may not be much left.
• Whenever there is an oil spill there is usually a massive environmental disaster.
• It is easy for criminals to hijack the tankers and bomb the pipelines.
• It releases huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, both in its production and in its use, adding to the greenhouse effect.
• Burning it in vehicles releases particles into the air that contribute to thousands of human deaths each year.
• -trouble for wildlife

There are many effects of the power plant on the environment.

Nuclear plants use diesel generators (and some times gas, or combustion, turbines) for emergency electrical power. These diesels or turbines are typically started and run at least once a month to ensure they can function as backup power, if required, during a loss of power condition or accident condition. When these diesels or turbines startup, usually black plumes of exhaust gases are released. Operation of these diesels or turbines is the only source of greenhouse gases (e.g. carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides) at a nuclear plant.

The air ejector exhaust at PWRs is usually non-radioactive. Only in those cases where there may be leakage through a steam generator tube could that exhaust have any radioactivity. At BWRs, the air ejector exhaust is radioactive, but that exhaust must also pass through delay pipes, storage tanks and a hydrogen recombiner before being released to the environment from the very tall stack that you sometimes see at BWRs. Ventilation exhaust from buildings containing radioactive processes have radiation monitors that sample for particles and gases. If unacceptable levels are reached, special fans start, the normal ventilation system is shutdown, and the exhaust is routed through special particulate, high efficiency particulate, and charcoal filters before being exhausted. These systems are designed to reduce the release below acceptable levels.

Radioactive gases may be removed from the systems supporting the reactor cooling system. These gases removed are compressed and stored. The gases are periodically sampled and can only be released when the radioactivity is less than an acceptable level according to the 10CFR20regulation. Releases of this nature are done very infrequently.

All potential paths where radioactive materials could be released to the environment are monitored by radiation monitors.

Solid Releases-Ground Effects

Solid radioactive materials only leave the plant by three paths:

• Routine non radioactive office, process, and building material waste via traditional means
• Radioactive waste (e.g. clothes, rags, wood) is compacted and placed in drums. These drums must be thoroughly de-watered. The drums are often checked at the receiving location by regulatory agencies. Special landfills must be used.
• Spent resin may be very radioactive and is shipped in specially designed containers.

For introductory information on low level waste, see Low Level Waste and More on Low Level Waste.

Currently, the used fuel assemblies are stored underwater in large cooling pools at the plant. In some cases, where storage has become limited, dry cask storage on-site may be used. This storage is covered by the regulation 10CFR72 for Independent Spent Fuel Storage Facilities. For introductory information on high level waste, see High Level Waste and More on High Level Waste.

Impact on the Biosphere

In the 1960's, the Atomic Energy Commission funded research to investigate effects of radiation on people, plants, and animals. Some of the studies were conducted at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California and at various government and university laboratories. A number of studies entitled the BEAR (Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation) and BEIR (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) studies reported on these effects. The most recent, BEIR VII Phase 2, "Health Effects of Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation", (see summary) was published by the National Academy Press in 2005. A down to earth discussion of radiation is presented in the University of Wisconsin Graduate School'

Other findings, methodology

The activists' report also found that:

• People dying prematurely from problems associated with exposure to fine particle pollution, or soot, lost an average of 14 years.
• Power plant pollution is responsible for 38,200 nonfatal heart attacks and 554,000 asthma attacks each year.
• Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida had the highest overall mortality rates each year, and West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee - states with a large number of coal-fired plants - had the highest per capita mortality risk.

The study relied on computer modeling to compare EPA data on power plant emission levels and dispersal patterns with results of epidemiological studies by Harvard University in 1993 and the American Cancer Society in 1995, said Ledford.

The data came from 2002 for soot - microscopic particles linked to asthma, heart disease and other health problems - along with acid rain-causing sulfur dioxide and smog-forming nitrogen oxides, Ledford said.

There are too many ways to reduce your carbon footprint to list here.

However, here are some of the main ones:

• Use less electricity, or get a renewable energy source (such as wind or solar power).
• Reduce, reuse, and recycle any household garbage as much as you can.
• Compost as much kitchen waste and paper waste as you can.
• Buying local products, such as foods (the further a product is shipped, the more fuel is wasted on transporting it).
• Using public transportation, carpooling, or, ideally, cycling or walking to go from place to place.
• If you want to make your household even more eco-friendly, consider:
• Reducing your water usage
• Buying certified organic food and certified organic cotton clothing
• Using biodegradable soaps and cleaning products.

Hope this can help you to help the Earth!

1. Try to use public transport when possible, or car share. Drive as little as possible - walk or cycle when you can.
2. Turn your water heating and central heating down slightly when it isn't too cold
3. Don't leave any lights etc. on when you don't need them
4. Try not to waste water so have a short shower rather than having a bath.
5. don't throw away so much food, stick it in a container and use it for a day where you can't be bothered making dinner.
6. recycle, if you recycle it will be cutting down on the amount of plastic that goes into the world and when you are finished with something recyclable make sure you check on the side to see if it is recyclable
7. Don't leave appliances on stand-by - always turn them off and if possible, unplug them when not in use.
8. Use as few resources as possible.
9. Try to make make sure that your home and work place are making efficient use of energy - insulate, use low-energy LED lights, update old equipment (e.g. boilers, heating, air-conditioning) to newer more energy efficient models. This will also save money in the long term as it will keep utility bills down.
10. Re-use and recycle whenever possible, and when you buy new products, research the resources that went into making and transporting them, and let that inform your choices. When you have to buy new things, buy local.

- Go Green: use as many green solutions as you can, from buying a hybrid car to using solar panels.

- Teleworking: use conference calls so that you don' t need to travel so much to meet up with your team.

there are LOTS of ways to decrease it:

• take shorter showers
• walk instead of driving
• don't waste paper
• don't waste electricity (leaving lights on)
• use environmentally friendly resources (solar panels, recycled materials, etc.)
• live in a small house with small amount of people

you probably get the point!! just anything that's good for the environment!!

heat the house less in the winter.

There are lots of ways to reduce; you can drive less , ride your bike more often and walk instead. You can plant flowers and trees. You can also use less electricity and recycle etc.

People can reduce their carbon footprints by driving less, taking more public transport, going to places by walking or cycling, reducing home heating and electricity use, and choosing energy efficient appliances.

Factory pollution is one of the minor contributors of global warming; however it can be stopped before it gets any worst than it already is.

Industry pollution mostly comes from the factories that are over ten years old . If we make new factories that don't cause as much pollution and knock down the older factories it will lower the percent of pollution that factories give off. Even if that doesn't work it is still possible to lower the percent of pollution factories give off by using an alternative source of energy instead of burning fossil fuels in factories. This will slow down global warming. If the normal everyday people just don't use as much energy we won't have to burn as much fossil fuel .

Global warming is the effect of 200 years of burning fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, deforestation and other natural disasters. When the sun's heat rays come into the earth's atmosphere the greenhouse gases trap most of the heat and that heat continues to build up, and heat the earth more and more every year. Doing this causes the heat-trapping "greenhouse gases" to increase significantly in the atmosphere every year if not stopped. These gases prevent heat from escaping to space.

One major cause of global warming is industry pollution. Factory pollution is over 40% of the pollution that causes global warming according to some sources, others disagree. One of the diseases that it causes is asthma. More than twenty million people a year have asthma attacks and over 9,000 children in the United States die a year from asthma attacks. Other diseases are heart and lung diseases, and respiratory allergies. The World Health Organization estimates that in all 4.6 million people die each year from causes that are directly from air pollution. According to Scorecard, over 20,000 factories in the United States produce over 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals that could leak into the environment. Some of these gases contain items that might cause a fire and that well cause global warming, because of the carbon coming from the fire.

The effect of global warming will make the sea level rise nine to eighty-eight centimeters, because of the melting glaciers. This doesn't seem like a lot now, but in a few years when the sea level rises more it will cause more floods because of the water cycle. The water cycle is where the water comes from, the ocean comes up into the clouds and comes down as rain. Then most of the water goes back into the ocean and it starts all over again. With more water there will be more rain and more floods. Global warming is basically another word to explain the theory, that all around the world the temperature of the earth is increasing.

This is all the information needed to know about industrial pollution and how to stop it. Global warming is just another term to name the theory that the temperature all around the world is increasing, but there are still ways to stop it if people take part in helping clean up the mess made on earth.

Addenda

Though factories do contribute to the addition of pollutants and 'Greenhouse gasses', by far, the greatest amount is from natural processes.

Nor can our factories be 'stopped'. Unless you wish to disassemble the entire technology on which our civilization is based.

Knocking down and building new factories would add to the problem and any benefits from cleaner use would not be seen for decades.

Giving simplistic answers addressing such problems adds to the problems, as does disseminating such information.

There are almost 7,000,000,000 people in the world, many starving or on subsistence diets. To do away with the very infrastructure that is presently keeping these people alive is not a solution.