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Recent Answers from Steve Nelson

2012-01-11 Radiation:

You're partly confusing (don't worry, most people do) radioactive material with radiation itself, and not distinguishing between the radiation types.  Some radiation emitted by radioactive material can

2012-01-02 Tungsten Conduct Rods:

This is basically what we call geothermal energy.  It can be extracted from anywhere in the Earth's core, not just actual magma.  However, the corrosive environments and extreme materials costs currently

2011-09-21 man made or natural disasters:

While I am not an engineer, I'm a physicist, I can help answer this one to an extent.  To an extent means that you never wrote what kind of shock, explosion, or other disaster.  Obviously the shock would

2011-09-21 industrial accidents:

This is much like your previous question, almost impossible to answer.  You never mentioned what kind of accident at all.  It's the same as the danger level at any coal-fired plant, but less likely because

2011-09-21 Nuclear waste:

That depends on a ridiculous number of factors.  Such as: who lives there?  What is their water consumption?  Is their ground water from the local water table or from a city water supply?  How far is the