edinto furniture, windows, ornaments, etc. Continuous resources are continuallyrenewable. Solar energy will always exist and can be harnessed and used withoutconcern for recycling or replenishment time. It can be said that it will never befinite and the supply will always be greater than the demand.Question 3Natural Resource: UraniumA variety issues arise when uranium is found, extracted, processed, consumed,and disposed of. Management strategies are in place to combat these issues. Environmental IssuesThe use of uranium produces waste has an impact on the environment. Wasteproduced is radioactive and therefore hazardous, depending on the waste’slevel of radioactivity and half life it will remain hazardous for a long period oftime. The environmental issue effecting uranium is waste disposal. The viewbelow is from Pangia Resources, a US company that seeks to dispose ofnuclear waste in outback Australia.“nuclear waste is a problem that won't go away, that the best known way of dealing with it is putting it somewhere in stable rocks, that these rocks must be away from population centres”(Campaign for a Nuclear Free Future - Update 17 Dec 98) Table 1 shows radioactive waste scales and their individual disposal method.The burial of waste, in the short term has been a suitable method but in thelong term proves to be uncertain. There are always risks of the radioactivewaste leeching out into the soil and impact on the biophysical environment.Diagram 2 shows the spread of radioactive contamination via abioticprocesses to the biota.Source: http://www1.octa4.net.au/ecnt/Jabiluka.htm URANIUM ISSUESUnless a proven long term method of waste disposal is developed, uranium willloose resource value as demand decreases due to environmental andconcerns.Social IssuesThe Mirrar of the Northern Territory are concerned about the Jabaluka uraniumdevelopment, and any development that impacts on their cultural sacred sitesand traditional way o...
