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DOE Sites storing spent nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste, and/or surplus plutonium destined for deologic disposition. (dots do not reflect presise locations) | 29 Nuclear Roulette:The Case Against a Nuclear Renaissance BOX VI NUCLEAR DESALINATION? 5 billion people will face severe fresh-water shortages. Nuclear proponents groping for justifications to expand nuclear power have argued that the waste heat from power plants can provide a “cheap and clean” solution to the inherently costly process of removing salt from seawater.
Australia’s new government not only failed to act on a campaign promise to repeal this act, it now plans to expand a Northern Territory nuclear dump located on traditional Aboriginal lands and plans to enlarge uranium mines in South Australia and the Northern Territories. At the same time, the West Australian and Queensland governments continue to call for a ban on uranium mining. The daily extraction of up to 11 million gallons of water to supply Australia’s Roxby Downs mine189 has destroyed the ancient Mound Springs on native Arabunna land.
146 When it comes to producing electricity, nuclear is an extravagantly water-wasting technology. 147 A nuclear power station requires between 20 to 83 percent more water than any other kind of power plant. 148 28 | E N V I RO N M E N TA L I M PAC T S : A I R , L A N D & WAT E R I MPACTS ON L AND Life on land suffers gross impacts too. S. 7-million-ton tailings pile at Shiprock, New Mexico, covers 72 acres. All tailings piles release radon gas and long-lived radioactive isotopes into the air, rivers, arroyos and aquifers.