s, which are hundreds of times higher levels than they will ever experience from the nuclear industry. Some examples of everyday radiation are the TV, microwaves, and cellular telephones. Far from being mysterious, radiation is much simpler and better understood than air pollution, food additives, insecticides, or nearly any other environment agent (Cohen 292). The media using “lethal” and “deadly” as descriptive words for radiation its no wonder that the public fears this unknown substance. The second major misunderstanding concerns the accident of a large reactor. The public, unfortunately, has only been informed about the most serious of these potential accidents, and not that fact of its extreme low probability. What we are going to do with the “high-level waste” is another misleading problem. This waste is detected as toxic but it is less toxic then chlorine and other commonly used materials. The level of risk is another misapprehension simply due to the fact that life is full of risks. Smoking, Drinking, Violence, and so many more ventures you take just by stepping outside your house. Lastly, whoever has associated nuclear energy and nuclear bomb has greatly exaggerated. Many things are more deadly and much more easily dispersed into the environment, through either terrorists or accidents. In view of these misunderstandings and exaggerated concern about nuclear safety, regulatory requirements on nuclear power plants constantly tightened. This led to a big waste of time and effort. Consequently the cost of a nuclear power plant inflated, the effect was to make it economically ill favored. The problem was that nuclear power plants were not made in a greatly understood safe way that the public demands for. They are currently improving the standards of safely by the thousands in correlation to the plants that are currently in service. I think the cost is plainly just a cop out because the government...
