Damaging to Environment

Due to the immense radiation output from  the explosion of a nuclear weapon, uranium has an extremely damaging effect on the environment. The alpha particles releases in a nuclear explosion contaminate the air, soil, and wild life of the surrounding area of a blast. Many people, after the disaster in Hiroshima in 1948, died days or even months after the blast due to radiation. Uranium mines, have also proven extremely difficult to completely rid of radiation  this has caused health problems among the Navajo nation. Uranium by itself has no environmental effect whatsoever, but its by products such as radon  can be extremely poisonous and hazardous to the environment. It provides no benefits whatsoever to the environment. 

Below: Former Miner at  Abandoned Uranium Mine

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