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Nuclear Power Plant reactor vessel on beach File Photo - Now closed Trojan nuclear power plant reactor vessel near banks of Columbia River. Environmentally, nuclear power has one main advantage over fossil fuels: it emits no greenhouse gases. Fossil fuels are, however, still needed to produce uranium and to transport nuclear wastes. And storage for the highly radioactive solid and liquid wastes remains a problem. Radioctive elements in these wastes can remain dangerously radioactive for thousands of years. Plutonium can also be used for nuclear weapons production so security is a concern as well.
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