Senate+Bill+Number+2224

toc =The Nuclear Release Notice Act of 2007=

media type="file" key="Senate Bill 2224.mp3" This is a picture of a Nuclear Power Plant here in the United States. It was taken by lymang.
 * This is a bill that was proposed by Senator(now President Elect) Barack Obama.
 * It has the number S2224.

Bill Summary
This bill requires that within two years after the date of enactment of this Act, that all Civilian Nuclear Power Facilities licensed under this section, to provide notice of any release to the environment of quantities of fission products or other radioactie substances. So, all nuclear power facilities are to provide notice to the government within 24 hours of the release of radioactive and harmful products that will hurt the environment. Read the full text from the bill [|here]

__History of Nuclear and Radioactive Waste__

 * Nuclear Energy was used for the first time in the 1950's.
 * The use of Nuclear reactors began in the 1980's and is still used today.
 * The long term affects of Radioactive waste have led scientists to believe that waste started accumulating around the beginning of the 1960's.
 * Nuclear Energy is seen as an alternative energy source.
 * Nuclear Power comes from heat energy that is generated when the atoms of metals uranium or plutonium release parts of their substance. The breaking apart of the atoms is called fission and happens spontaneously.
 * This process is controlled in a Nuclear Power Facility. When problems occur at these power plants, harmful substances are released into the environment.
 * Though nuclear power doesn't require or emit greenhouse gasses into the environment, it still emits harmful radioactive wastes into the environment, most commonly polluting our water.
 * This happens when used fuel rods that can't be used inside the Nuclear Reactor anymore that are contain radioactive substances, get thrown away and dumped into large land fills..
 * The U.S. Government has currently designated the Sierra-Nevada Desert for burying these wastes.

__People affected by this bill__

 * This bill could potentially reduce the amount of radioactive substances being released into the environment and could be able to reduce the pollution going into the water supply in town nearby nuclear power plants.
 * The people that will be affected by this bill will be the employees and owners of the nuclear power plants around the country.
 * The citizens of this great nation will also be affected because they will also have to alert the government if they are not properly disposing of radioactive waste and possibly harming the environment.

__Bibliography__
Kidd, J.S., and Renee A. Kidd. __Science and Society Into Thin Air: The Problem of__ __Air Pollution__. New York City: File Inc. Publishing, 1998.

GovTrack.us. S. 2224--110th Congress (2007): Nuclear Release Notice Act of 2007, //GovTrack.us (database of federal legislation)//  (accessed Dec 9, 2008)

This is a picture of Nuclear Waste Disposal. It doesn't look like it is helping the environment. http://www.snakeriveralliance.org/Portals/2/images/1969dumping.JPG

Senator Barack Obama proposed The Nuclear Release Notice Act in 2007 to the U.S. Senate. http://blog.kir.com/archives/Barack_Obama_portrait_2005.jpg