Hi @doitvoluntarily Good night. The community is rightfully concerned over the humanitarian fall-out.
Soil is one of the terminal receptors of radioisotopes. Soils contaminated by radioactivity pose a serious problem for the environment and human health, and an effective and affordable technological solution is necessary. Phytoremediation is a green and viable technology, from the economic point of view, with a great potential to recover soils contaminated by radioactivity. And when it comes to cleaning a radioactive soil, what is really necessary, from an environmental and public health point of view, is the phytoextraction and subsequent harvesting of the aerial biomass of the plant.
Experts know that the exploitation of nuclear power plants, in short, implicitly carries the risk of contamination of the soil environment, a risk that in many cases translates into an unfortunate reality and significant concentrations of radionuclides end up being installed in the soil, in a more or less permanent. An operative procedure to evaluate the effects on the edaphic environment of the presence of radioisotopes, is to discriminate between its components, abiotic and biotic, to then try an interpretation that includes the entire system.
The world community knows that nuclear accidents have caused an extended of Fukushima to be affected by nuclear radiation with significant deterioration of the environment, and the physical, psychological, environmental and social repercussions of major nuclear accidents often transcended national boundaries and lasted for generations.
The spectre of a nuclear accident makes it difficult to fathom whether the liable party would adequately recompense the damage.
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