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tually, this waste will spread throuhgout the oceans of the world. Since the early 1950’s the then Soviet Union, pumped billions of gallons of radioactive liquid waste directly into the ground. This practice continues today among the former Soviet republics, especially the Rus sian Federation. Some countries have found solutions to the nuclear waste problem and are taking advantage of this by turn ing it into a profitable business. The Canadian Atomic Energy Commission has determined that radioactive waste may be safely contained beneath the earth’s sur face and is willing to store other countries’ nuclear waste for a price. The U.S. Department of Energy has decided to store all of the nation’s radioactive bypro ducts at a site in Nevada, near Yucca Mountain. The U.S. has made arrangements with the Russian Federa tion regarding the disposition of nuclear weapons and their conversion for peaceable use. Price is currently being discussed. Through the years a number of accidents have occurred at nuclear power plants. Most of these acci It is a well-known fact that the demographic situa tion in Ukraine is deteriorating every year. The birth rate is plummeting. In the 1970s there were 70 births per year per 1000 women aged 15-49; by 1993 this figure had fallen to 46 births per thousand. Over the same period, the mortality rate increased, rising from 13.4 per thousand in 1992 to 14.6 per thousand in 1994. With the mortality rate exceed ing the birth rate, population growth fell to 4.5 per thousand in 1994. In 1994, the mortality rate of children under 1 year of age was 14.4%. According to official statistics, preg nancy outcomes were unfavorable in approximately 50,000. The causes of this phenomenon have not been adequately examined, but the complex political and economic circum stances stemming from the problem-laden process of de dents were partially the results of mistakes made by (fal- lable) human operators. At this time in Eastern Europe there are two nuclear reactors considered by many experts to be the most dangerous. They are “Ignalina” in Lithuania and ’’Kozludui" in Bulgaria. Source: ’’The New York Times” November 15, 1992. In 1993 there were 430 nuclear power plants in operation. 100 more were in the process of being built. ’’War and Peace Digest” vol. 3, no. 8 1995 states: “There is a nearly 50% chance that a complete nuclear meltdown could occur in the U.S. within the next ten years.” The peaceful use of nuclear power in the long term can be far more deadly and life threatening to human life than the Hiroshima bombing. I have only touched the tip of the iceberg! I would like to end on this note. We are the keepers of this earth. We all must have input in preserving it for future generations. Concerned citizens must act now and urge their governments to be more responsible in the quest to harness nuclear power! mocratization, higher stress levels, socio-economic instabil ity, the introduction of the free market, the accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station, industrial waste and soil, air and water contamination may all be viewed as contribut ing factors. The result, however, is that Ukraine’s popula tion is declining at a steady rate and this demographic situation has become a source of particular concern. It is obvious that the Ukrainian family is at risk and that there is a need to develop measures to protect the family, and particularly women and children, from a wide array of social, medical and ecological threats which have arisen from the political and environmental changes and upheavals of recent years. ’’НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, КВІТЕНЬ 1996 21 CHILDREN OF UKRAINE By Dr. ZORESLAVA NIZHNIK
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