9th form Reading The Nuclear Power Data-bank

1. The fuel ___ nuclear power stations use is a rare metal - uranium.

2. One tonne of uranium can produce as ____ energy as 20 000 tonnes of coal.

3. Nuclear power ____ pollute the atmosphere like fossil fuels. But it produces waste.

4. This ____ radioactive for thousands of years and is very dangerous.

5. At the moment most stations bury their waste deep underground, at sea, or send their waste to ___ countries.

6. Nuclear experts ___ it's safe to bury radioactive waste other scientists think it will seriously pollute the sea or the Earth one day.

7. The accident at Chernobyl ____ a cloud of radioactive pollution over Scandinavia and Western Europe.

8. The pollution travelled for more ____ 1 000 kilometres.

9. As a result, farmers ____ kill millions of pigs, sheep and cows.

10. But the accident ____ just affect animals, it affected people, too.

11. ____ Chernobyl, many countries have stopped building new nuclear power stations.

12. Green organizations all over the world are ____ nuclear energy because it's dirty, unhealthy and dangerous.