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Cause And Effect Essay On Nuclear Pollution

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Nuclear Pollution & Effects

There are several factors on which the radioactive pollutants are dependent upon. They can be accounted as half-life, rate of diffusion, rate of deposition of the containment and also the energy releasing capacity. The effects are then aggravated in the presence or absence of certain atmospheric conditions and factors like the wind, the temperature conditions and rainfall too. This radiation pollution affects all the present organisms and spares none. The effects of which are experienced to be quite drastic and extremely dangerous. These effects can be broadly narrowed down to somatic meaning when the effects are shown as an individual is exposed or affected or it can also be genetic damage mainly concerning the future generations. The effects seen are cancer, having a short life span and genetic mutation. …show more content…

She became the victim thus of the radioactive pollution and succumbed to it dying of leukemia. With high dosage of radiation exposure there is acute toxicity by immediately causing death of the victim. The victim is stricken with lower vitality and dies either by anaemia, haemorrhage or infection.

High exposure when faced in the gestation period leads to brain damage. Infants whose age is between eight to fifteen weeks of pregnancy exposed during the atomic attack of Second World War on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were detected to have a greater occurrence of brain damage with lowering of Intelligent Quotient(IQ) and also severe cases of mental retardation. The organs that are most susceptible to the effects of high radiation are the intestines, lymph nodes, spleen, bone marrow and even the gonads. The radiation strongly degenerates and weakens the body immune

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