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INTRO
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Scientists from around the world are talking about building a nuclear
power plant which will transform dangerous radioactive waste into
something much less hazardous. |
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Listen
to the report in full from Helen Sewell of BBC Science and Juliet
Hindell, BBC correspondent in Japan |
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14th
October 1999
Nuclear
Power
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Many
countries rely on nuclear power to provide electricity. But nuclear
plants produce dangerous, radioactive waste, and there’s
controversy over how to deal with this. Now scientists from
all over the world are to pool their resources - both money
and brain power - to build a kind of nuclear incinerator.
This will take the highly radioactive waste from other nuclear power
stations and turn it into a safer, less radioactive form. |
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WORDS
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radioactive:
the quality that some substances have of giving out energy by the
breaking up of atoms. Uranium is a radioactive substance
controversy:
if there is controversy over something then there is much disagreement
about it
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pool their resources: to share or combine something
pool...brain
power: to pool brain power is to share thoughts and ideas
incinerator:
a machine or building for burning things
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The
site of Japan’s worst nuclear accident in Tokaimura, north east
of Tokyo is still too dangerous to enter, so it’s unclear how
close the team from the International Atomic Energy Agency will get.
Three workers at the plant who were following an illegal manual
caused a nuclear reaction late last month by pouring too much uranium
from a metal bucket into a settling tank. At least forty nine people
were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. |
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plant
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a factory
manual:
a book of technical instructions or information
radiation:
very small particles of a radioactive substance: they can cause
illness or death
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Read
about the background to the Japanese accident in BBC News Online |
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