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INTRO | | Scientists from around the world are talking about building a nuclear power plant which will transform dangerous radioactive waste into something much less hazardous. |
IN FULL | |  | Listen to the report in full from Helen Sewell of BBC Science and Juliet Hindell, BBC correspondent in Japan |
 |  | 14th October 1999 Nuclear Power |
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| NEWS 1 | | Many countries rely on nuclear power to provide electricity. But nuclear plants produce dangerous, radioactive waste, and there’s controversy over how to deal with this. Now scientists from all over the world are to pool their resources - both money and brain power - to build a kind of nuclear incinerator. This will take the highly radioactive waste from other nuclear power stations and turn it into a safer, less radioactive form. |
WORDS | | radioactive: the quality that some substances have of giving out energy by the breaking up of atoms. Uranium is a radioactive substance controversy: if there is controversy over something then there is much disagreement about it to pool their resources: to share or combine something pool...brain power: to pool brain power is to share thoughts and ideas incinerator: a machine or building for burning things |
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| NEWS 2 | | The site of Japan’s worst nuclear accident in Tokaimura, north east of Tokyo is still too dangerous to enter, so it’s unclear how close the team from the International Atomic Energy Agency will get. Three workers at the plant who were following an illegal manual caused a nuclear reaction late last month by pouring too much uranium from a metal bucket into a settling tank. At least forty nine people were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. |
| WORDS | | plant : a factory manual: a book of technical instructions or information radiation: very small particles of a radioactive substance: they can cause illness or death |
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| | | Read about the background to the Japanese accident in BBC News Online |
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