Your cousin lives near a nuclear power plant and is concerned about the white smoke he sees coming out of the giant smokestacks at the nearby nuclear power plant.To lessen his fears,you should inform your cousin that___________ .
A) the smoke is actually steam coming from cooling towers and that the water producing the steam did not come from the reactor core
B) the amount of radioactivity in the fuel rods of a functioning nuclear power plant is so low that there would be nothing to worry about,even if the power plant were to fail and release all of its radiation into the air
C) nobody has ever been killed or injured from an accident at a nuclear power plant
D) the smoke is being generated by the connected coal power plant that provides backup electricity to the nuclear power plant
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