Nuclear Power Plant Safety Systems

The end of World War II had many nations shocked and pondering in 1940’s. Thoughts of a weapon that can erase an entire populous in a short amount of time prompted many nations to consider nuclear armament. This originated from the devastating events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which brought the world somber, and fearful. Some individuals recognized this and did take measures in order to regulate and prevent future use of these weapons. The Acheson-Lilienthal Report was a document that took a stand against national independent control of atomic weapons by proposing compromise between the U.S, and U.S.S.R., the failure to secure the document prompted the Cold War era and Nuclear Arms race, this became a foundation for further agreements and

On Friday March 11th, 2011 at 2:46 pm, the fifth largest earthquake recorded since 1900 with a magnitude of 9.0, 1.7 Richter scale points greater than the devastating Vancouver Island earthquake of 1946, struck the coast of Japan, 231 miles northeast of Tokyo1, causing a devastating regional and global catastrophe.

When people hear the term “nuclear energy”, the first thing that jumps to their minds is most often “danger”. Who could blame the world for their intense fears of nuclear power, especially after reading the reports from Dr. Ira Helfand and the American writer, David Biello? Dr. Helfand’s article, “Radiation’s Risk to Public Health”, attacks the nuclear energy with facts and concerns like those of the National Research Council BEIR VI report. Whereas Dr. Helfand supports his claims with scientific evidence, David Biello only had a script from a discussion that followed the Fukushima crisis. David Biello’s article, “How Safe Are U.S. Nuclear Reactors? Lessons from Fukushima”, he uncovers secret concerns and future plans about the incredibly disastrous incident. Although David Biello used credible sources and attempted to appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos, Dr. Ira Helfand contains an authority in his education and knows a great deal more about nuclear power and definitely has the best representation of ethos, logos, and pathos.

According to the records of earthquake intensity, this is the strongest earthquake occurred in Japan and one of the most powerful earthquakes in the world ( ). When the Pacific land crashed down and the North American land slide up, the resulting of landslide and outburst of the bottom turn to create earthquake in the Pacific Ocean, and it was the biggest impact in 1200 years. Furthermore, the earthquake occurred from 130 kilometer east of the city of Honshu, Japan on March 11, 2011, and the main shock lasted for 40 minutes. The earthquake created magnitude scale to 9.0 Mw, and 165-foot movement occurred to the seafloor during the earthquake ( ). Moreover, at that time, most city of Japanese affected by that earthquake, and a nuclear power industry is one of the victims which was crashed by the earthquake. Because of that, it release of radiation to large area not only in Japan but also get oversea to another country such as China, Viet

The Three Mile Island accident happened on March 28th, 1979 near Middletown, Pennsylvania (Vijayan, Kamble, Nayak, Vaze, and Sinha 2013). Ignorant workers, defects in the design of the plant, and disastrous equipment were major components in the Three Mile Island disaster. Basically, a valve erupted from too much pressure; this released just under 1,000,000 gallons of polluted water into the basement of the plant. Only a small amount of radiation was leaked into the atmosphere, but it was enough to scare people for years to come (Vijayan, Kamble, Nayak, Vaze, and Sinha 2013). Only fractions of a millirem were found 50 miles away from the accident. A rem is a large dose of radiation; a millirem is a thousandth of a rem (Edelson, 1986). This shows that there was not much radiation that leaked into the atmosphere, unlike Chernobyl. In Sweden, they discovered numerous millirems of radiation, which puts into perspective how big the Chernobyl disaster was. After the Three Mile Island Accident, there were major changes including safety and defense-in-depth improvements (Vijayan, Kamble, Nayak, Vaze, and Sinha 2013). The United States put forth major changes in safety and technology for their nuclear power plants after the Three Mile Island accident, but the Soviet Union did not believe this would happen in their plants. They believed they had no flaws in their system and didn’t want to add stronger safety features to their nuclear power plants to protect them from

Lastly, the lack of proper supervision and protection for the nuclear plants can potentially cause detrimental amount of damage to the environment and society. We need to take responsibility for the safety for our next

These accidents were chosen because they constitute worst yet valuable examples of what can – and, occasionally, does – go wrong in the nuclear power production realm, and because they shape our understanding of the caused harm. They also embrace a thirty-five year period, during which nuclear power underwent significant regulatory development worldwide, aiming to address growing concerns with respect to short- and long-term effects of such disasters on human health, environmental, social, and economic factors.

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Japan on Tuesday morning at about 6 am local time (GMT 9 pm Monday), which triggered a minor tsunami wave.

March 11, 2011-- Japan experiences one of the most devastating earthquakes recorded. The epicenter, located at 38.297 N, 142.372 E, produces a magnitude 9.0 earthquake at a depth

On Friday at 2:46 p.m. local time, near the northeast coast of Japan, there was a magnitude of 9.0 disastrous earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011 (“Poster of the Great Tohoku Earthquake”, 2012). Earthquakes occur at fault when a fracture in the earth along which movement occurs. When strain builds up, the fault slips and earthquake is created. Earthquake, the most destructive natural disasters of all is caused by the movement of the tectonic plates in the lithosphere. The ground shaking is produced by a rapid released of energy and stress in the Earth. When the stress is release, it sends vibrations known as seismic waves that produced at the focus of the earthquake. Honshu earthquake is considered as one of the deadliest earthquakes and

Nuclear fission is a reaction in which heavy nuclei, such as Uranium and Plutonium, are broken into smaller nuclei releasing heat, which is transformed into another form of energy such as, mechanical or electrical. For a long time people have been using nuclear fission as an efficient and sustainable source of energy. However, the use of this form of energy is associated with a unique set of consequences including environmental, social and ethical. In this paper I will discuss nuclear energy and its impact on the environment.

The 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown was sparked by a massive tsunami off the coast of Japan caused by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake.

Nuclear energy institute is a non-governmental organization based in the United States. The organization serves as an independent voice for nuclear energy industry in the U. S. and the rest of the world. Being the voice of the industry, this organization is responsible for legislative and technical regulations and policy making; representation of the industry in matters concerning the government, other non-governmental organizations, industries and corporations all over the world; strategic management and standards control. The main goal of nuclear energy institute is to further improve and increase the use of nuclear energy in order to hasten the process of industrial revolution; energy is the basic need in any type of industry. They

In 1955, in an attempt to stall the United Nations General Assembly from passing a resolution against atmospheric nuclear explosions and in response to the fallout created by the Castle Bravo tests, the General Assembly was persuaded to create a committee that would research and fulfill the need for pertinent information.5 At first, the main focus of the newly created United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation was to accumulate and analyze information on the atmospheric and environmental effects of radiation in an attempt to gauge the need for a treaty banning atmospheric tests.6 Because

The Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) set out a model of the Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) in 1997. The model underwent revision and reforms in 2007. The text puts a proposal that international law completely eliminates and bans the use of nuclear weapons. The proposal has general support from the international system. Over the years, security at the international level has faced opposition when it comes to the disarmament of nuclear weapons. Discussions that are concerned with the risks of nuclear weapons and the options for disarmament have been featured in several international law conferences with the increase in the back up for a world free of nuclear weapons.