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"Nuclear energy: it's 'on' again." //Maclean's// 3 Oct. 2011: 55+. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA268870650&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * There are 10 countries in the world that consume a total of 320 gigawatts of nuclear energy for their nuclear power plants.
 * By 2020 the 320 gigawatts will go to 405 just in under 9 years.
 * Ukraine's nuclear consumption will go up 23%.
 * China will make a nuclear power plant that will hold 53 gigawatts of nuclear energy in it.
 * By 2035 98% of the world will be using nuclear energy to power plants and other things.

"JAPAN CLOSES ANOTHER NUKE PLANT AFTER FUKUSHIMA." //Turkish Government News// 11 May 2011. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA256128931&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * Japan shut down one of their many nuclear power plants after the major earthquake and tsunami.
 * They shut it down because the radiation from the plant got into some of the food and water.
 * If the people would have eaten those plants or drank any of the water they would have radiation poising inside of them.
 * Japan closed down the plant so that nothing like that could happen again and could wipe out all of Japan.
 * They want to close more nuclear power plants down in the future so that they will not have do deal with what almost happened this year.

"Hot spots and blind spots; Radiation in Japan." //The Economist// [US] 8 Oct. 2011: 54(US). //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA268890936&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * After the earthquake in Japan a farmer noticed that their was something wrong with his plants he cut a piece off and ate it later that those day he was found dead because of radiation poisoning.
 * The government of Japan stop all of the food from the plants from getting shipped into the city and have something spread through the city.
 * They decided that since the nuclear power plant was near this farm something must of happened during the earthquake that the radiation got leaked onto the plants on his farm.
 * This made the government of Japan go to every farm and check every plant for radiation so then no one else will die because of radiation poisoning in Japan.
 * The government then found out that many of the Japan farms had radiation all over their plants and they had to close down a lot of farms so that the radiation doesn't spread all over Japan.

Weber, Donald. "Life After Zero Hour." //Newsweek International// 17 Oct. 2011. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA269453818&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * When the Japan nuclear power plant had a meltdown everyone in a 20 kilometer range had to be evacuated.
 * The radiation from the plant got into a town and infected everyone that was in the town.
 * The town has became the most radioactive area in the world.
 * In a nearby town everything was fine no radiation of any kind was found in the town.
 * If the radiation got any further towards the town tons of people would be wiped out.

"Dirt on nuclear power." //Planet Earth// 15 Oct. 2011. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA269781294&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * Nuclear meltdowns have caused tons of damage it has caused a total of $20.5 billion
 * It has caused $330 million in destruction every year
 * There has been a total of 99 nuclear accidents since nuclear plants have developed
 * there has been 956 incidents from 1942 to 2007
 * nuclear meltdowns have made a total of 272,000 people evacuate
 * There has been 30,000 mishaps at nuclear plants in the US alone
 * A nuclear meltdown can release radiation over 20,000 square feet when a meltdown occurs
 * A nuclear meltdown killed 45,000 people and 17 billion dollars in property damage
 * There has been 57 incidents since the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986
 * There was a attack on a nuclear power plant near New York City
 * The attack was successful and 518,000 people died of cancer because of the attack
 * the property damage was close to 2 trillion dollars.

Joseph, Robert G. "Second to one: America's dangerous loss of nuclear parity." //National Review// 17 Oct. 2011: 39. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA268790186&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * Nuclear energy can lead to making nuclear bombs to bomb other places
 * If there is a world war 3 it will be a nuclear battle
 * Nukes will be dropped on the biggest states or cities in the US
 * Many will die because of the nuclear radiation
 * Few will survive the tragic attacks
 * The US has nukes to protect the country and keep everyone safe in the US
 * Everyone's army now has nuclear weapons to be unleashed on anyone at anytime
 * The US is trying to keep a world war 3 from happening so that nothing tragic like a nuclear war will ever happen