ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES(ES)

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Lesson 27: Climate change, global warming

Nuclear accidents and nuclear holocaust

Though nuclear energy is an alternate source of clean and cheap energy compared to fossil fuels; a single nuclear accident causes loss of life, long-term illness and destruction of property on a large scale and for a long period of time. Radioactivity and its fall out leads to cancer, genetic disorders and death in the affected area for decades after.