Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

Introduction: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. It measured 7 on the Nuclear Event Scale, which is the highest rating. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was initiated by a magnitude 9 earthquake. This earthquake caused a tsunami with waves reaching up to 133 feet to crash on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. This caused major damage to the nuclear plant. Workers were needed to keep this already terrible incident from escalading. The Fukushima Daiichi cleanup workers are

Recently, the deserted Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has been emanating an alarming amount of radiation. Kyodo of Japan Times reported that the radiation reading has reached its highest level since its emergence in March 2011 (Kyodo, 2017). As a result, there is a greater presence of air and water pollution in Fukushima that could easily spread to surrounding areas. Therefore, it seems appropriate that in an interview with the Washington Post, radio-ecology expert Tom Hinton stated Fukushima is “an area that is among the most radioactively contaminated in the world” (as cited in Andrews, 2016). This resurgence has generated conspiracy theories, false maps and, interestingly, little news coverage. While many across different continents

After one year there had been 302 cases in Fukushima Prefecture of vegetables that surpassed the admissible levels, 203 of marine items, 18 of dairy items, 147 of meat, 2 of grains, and so on., and tainting surpassing the administration breaking points had additionally been identified in Tochigi Prefecture, Gunma Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Tokyo, and elsewhere. Before this mishap, there had just been control records for restricting ingestion, however there were no benchmarks for the immediate regulation of nourishment and beverage contaminated with radioactive materials. (Akiyama Nobumasa, Sato Heigo, et al, 2012), (Kenji E. Kushida,

According to a new study, gathered by the researchers from Costas Synolakis of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Utku Kânoğlu of the Middle East Technical University in Turkey who went through all the reports about Fukushima’s disaster in 2011, the nuclear disaster should have never happened. During the research the found design problems, saying: “…the diesel generators as the linchpin of a future disaster. Fukushima Daiichi was a sitting duck waiting to be flooded.”

Because of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, the Pacific Ocean experienced more discharge of radioactive waste than any other ocean in the world. The immediate effects were devastating for fishers. Around 56% of all of fisher’s catches had noticeable traces of cesium. Because of such drastic conditions, drastic measures were taken to ensure safety of Japanese citizens. Fishing was banned off some coasts of the countries for months before it became regulatory again.

In 2011 Japan was struck by a 9.0 earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami, leaving them with the responsibility to clean up the mess it made. The earthquake created a wave which hit Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant causing many problems. Radioactive leaks were a major problem which was a result of the tsunami. Radiation began to contaminate the Pacific ocean which impacted the fish in it as well. Radiation also contaminated underground water sources because of unreachable fuel rods stored in an unstable building. This tsunami has created a great deal of problems for the citizens of Japan.

Fukushima catastrophic is a warning to the world about the hazards of nuclear power and contained lessons for the other governments who plan new generation of nuclear power stations. First lesson is the full disclosure on potential risks and share creditable information with the public. Furthermore,

This is because in everyday news report on the restoration of the Tohoku region, For this reason it is difficult to see the collision between the nation, TEPCO and the citizen of Fukushima, the citizens of Fukushima and the other citizens, also between the citizens of Fukushima. Fukushima prefecture isn’t willing to close up the conflict and radioactive material problem. There’s a collision of compensation, hazard of radioactivity, a question of right or wrong of refuge, energy policy.

Japanese fish have tested positive for dangerous levels of radiation and now, it seems, fish as far away as the US have been infected by the waste.

Fukushima was the second worst nuclear disaster in the history of the world. TEPCO reported that 300 tons of contaminated water had leaked from a storage tank into the ocean. Cod and pollock are important because of their global demand. Japanese cod has tested positive for radiation contamination a number of times since the Fukushima disaster, not only in the Fukushima area, but in many other areas too. 70% of domestic product comes from the Pacific Ocean. This has led to a lot of negative information circulating through Japanese society and a shortage of positive information (or at least an indifference to it. Negative information is known to have a stronger impact on consumers than positive. Very few people are aware of the Japanese government’s

The impact from the accident at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan has had major biological effects that are still effecting people, animals and plants to this day.

According to Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) estimate of radioactivity releases, 520,000 terabecquerels (TBq) of iodine-131, caesium-134 and caesium-137 was released into the atmosphere between 12 and 31 March 2011.That affect the places nearby Fukushima immediately and those residents who live in Fukushima need to move away that may affect economic and society.On the other hand, The Fukushima Daiichi disaster caused radiation dust release to the different places like China, Hong Kong, Northern America, and Northern Europe. Even those places detected very little radiation like Iodine-131 and Caesium-137, those little radiations do not affect residents in other countries. But those information may cause residents who live in other countries afraid.

The government of Japan has taken lots of measurements to solve the contamination issues. Workers and public were evacuated from the contamination areas. Food and water usage was restricted. Fishing was banned at the coast of Fukushima. Ten tons of seawater is being poured upon the melted cores

On March 11th, 2011, the northern section of Japan was hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, followed by a 15 meter tsunami, causing the death of over 15000 people. (Spacey) Even though the earthquake and the tsunami caused a tremendous amount of deaths in the northern region of Japan, the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant caused a severe damage to northern Japan’s ecosystem that people still cannot go back to their homes; despite it is 4 years after the disaster. After the earthquake, the tsunami destroyed the power supply used by Fukushima’s three nuclear power stations, causing severe levels of meltdown to be occurred inside the reactors in the timespan of 3 days. It was not until 2 weeks after the tragedy, when the reactors were finally stabilized, and took several months to approach what is called a “cold shutdown condition”, in which the fission in the reactors are completely stopped.(Fukushima A)

An earthquake centered 130 km off shore of the city of Sendai in Miyagi caused 11 nuclear reactors that were operating at 4 different nuclear plants to shut down on March 11, 2011(Fukushima Accident, 2015). The earthquake had a magnitude of 9.0, which is classified as one of the worst earthquakes/ greatest earthquakes on the earthquake scale, the tsunami following the earthquake was about 560 sq km resulting in over 19,000 human deaths. The earthquake and tsunami caused the following nuclear units to shut down, Tokyo Electric Power Company 's (Tepco) Fukushima Daiichi 1, 2, 3, and Fukushima Daini 1, 2, 3, 4, Tohoku 's Onagawa 1, 2, 3, and Japco 's Tokai, total 9377 MWe net (ibid).